Tribal police contacted Alaska State Troopers at 5:40 pm on Saturday evening and reported that they had left a Manokotak residence after a response after they were threatened by a suspect at that address. Manokotak TPOs had responded after a call-out to a domestic disturbance and arrived at the scene to find that 33-year-old […]
SWAN LAKE FIRE UPDATE: STERLING HIGHWAY is scheduled to open to one-lane traffic between MILEPOSTS 53 – 75 at 10 a.m. Pilot cars will be escorting traffic in alternating directions with flaggers at either end of the affected area. Expect delays. Alaska State Troopers will be patrolling the area and monitoring traffic. Motorists will […]
BOTHELL, Wash. – The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has authorized the use of federal funds to help with firefighting costs for the McKinley Fire burning in Alaska’s Matanuska-Susitna Borough. FEMA Region 10 Administrator Mike O’Hare determined that the fire threatened to cause such destruction as would constitute a major disaster. He approved the state of […]
Alaska had been a state for one year in 1960 when its Department of Fish and Game conducted a wolf-planting experiment on Coronation Island in Southeast Alaska. At the time, the remote 45-square-mile island exposed to the open Pacific had a high density of blacktailed deer and no wolves. That summer, biologists from Fish […]