Alaska State Troopers revealed details on a Thursday afternoon crash east of the Soldotna Airport and reported that the passengers and pilot all survived without injury. At 2:13 pm AST was contacted by the Anchorage Air Traffic Control that a Soldotna-bound Cessna 180 with three passengers aboard “had suffered engine failure and was unable to […]
An Anchorage man who went on a “crime spree” in August of 2017 and caught at the Gambell Carr’s store later the same day was sentenced on Thursday in U.S. District Court, U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced in a statement release. 25-year-old Demitri Kardeem Scott was sentenced to 6 and a half years in prison […]
A video of the U.S. Air Force Reserve’s “Hurricane Hunters” flying through the center of Hurricane Florence went viral. Between Florence and storms in the Gulf of Mexico and Hawaii, the daredevil crews who fly planes into the heart of extreme weather to record meteorological data have had a busy week. “Every storm has its […]
DENALI NATIONAL PARK — When I was 12 years old, I didn’t know permafrost was like frozen lasagna. I didn’t know what permafrost was. I grew up in a small town on the Hudson River in New York. But here is my 12-year-old daughter and her classmates, gathered amid fragrant tundra plants. She is sitting […]