Fairbanks troopers, on patrol on Tuesday morning, spotted a driver they knew to have an outstanding no bail warrant, attempted to pull over the vehicle without luck. As troopers attempted a traffic stop, the driver in the suspect vehicle, rather than come to a halt, sped away. North Pole and Fairbanks police joined the troopers in […]
Just before 1 pm on Monday, troopers were notified that a man had collapsed at a business on Hollywood Road in Wasilla. Troopers as well as EWMS responded to the scene to find the man unconscious and not breathing. CPR was administered and the victim was rushed to the hospital for further treatment. Unfortunately, he […]
A University of Washington-led international team of astronomers has used data gathered by the Kepler Space Telescope to observe and confirm details of the outermost of seven exoplanets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1. They confirmed that the planet, TRAPPIST-1h, orbits its star every 18.77 days, is linked in its orbital path to its siblings and is […]
I walked around the chain-link fence of Pump Station 12 of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, apprehensive about the human encounter to come. It was time to send a weekly column. I needed a Wi-Fi signal or a cellular bar or two. I had walked more than a week through air devoid of communications waves. With Cora […]