The Alaska Railroad is investigating the incident involving a southbound freight train that struck and killed a woman from Girdwood this week near Bird Point. Thirty-year-old Kristal Lavender and ...

Update, 6 p.m. Thursday: The woman struck and killed by a freight train near Bird Point on Wednesday was 30-year-old Kristal Lavender, the Alaska Railroad said in a statement Thursday evening.

CROWN POINT, Alaska (AP) - An 85-year-old Crown Point man was seriously injured when he was struck by an Alaska Railroad train near the Kenai Peninsula community. Alaska State Troopers say Ronald ...