At 7:55pm on Thursday, when his brother, Rex Iyatunguk, and his family did not arrive as scheduled from Nome, where they had left at 2 pm, Preston Dixon of Teller contacted the troopers in Nome to report them overdue.
MANHATTAN — A recent study in the journal Nature finds that nearly 50,000 years ago during the ice age, the landscape was not as drab as once thought — it was filled with colorful wildflowers. These wildflowers helped sustain woolly mammoths and other giant grazing animals.
While on patrol near Pegar Road and Phillips Field Road on Wednesday, the Bureau of Highway Patrol observed a truck traveling on the road with the windshield covered in ice obscuring the driver’s view. As a result, the vehicle was pulled over.