A Palmer man who was reported as a REDDI driver decided to fight with an Alaska State trooper when contact was made after the man ended up in the ditch in Wasilla on Sunday afternoon, troopers reported in their dispatch. An AST officer, responding to the REDDI report spotted the offender’s vehicle in the ditch […]
Precipitation more than temperature influenced the distribution of herbivorous dinosaurs in what is now Alaska, according to new research published this month. The finding, published April 2 in the journal Geosciences, discusses the distribution of hadrosaurids and ceratopsids — the megaherbivores of the Late Cretaceous Period, 100.5 million to 66 million years ago. The work […]
As much of Alaska’s landmass crosses the magical temperature threshold that turns ice and snow into water, it’s time to consider the state’s richness in a resource more essential to humans than oil or gas. Clear as gin, brown as iced tea or tinted aquamarine by glacial dust, Alaska’s freshwater supply is so abundant the […]
The Alaska State Troopers report that they have apprehended, with the help of numerous tips, the suspect they say is responsible for vehicle theft in Sterling on the Kenai Peninsula on April 25th. The caller in that incident reported to authorities that the suspect, later identified as 43-year-old Homer resident Marco Ramirez, drove up to […]