A few days ago, Cora the dog and I walked across a footbridge spanning a natural moat flowing through northern tundra plants. There, we reached mile 0 of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and the finish of a south-to-north walk across Alaska, most of it on the service road that parallels the pipeline. Though the orange-and-black mile […]
The Ted Stevens International Airport Air Traffic Controller, 33-year-old Justin Schneider, who was arrested on August 8th, following a violent attack on a woman at 36th and Wisconsin in Spenard, has now been indicted by an Anchorage grand jury on Assault and Kidnapping charges, APD reports. It was on Tuesday before last that Schneider offered […]
Humans have watched eclipses since before the dawn of written history, and during this long span of time our scientific understanding of the physical world has grown enormously. As a consequence, many of the older ideas we had about the causes and effects of total solar eclipses have been replaced by detailed physical explanations. Nevertheless, […]
A Hydaburg man was arrested after a search and an subsequent escape from custody, following an assault call in that community, troopers reported. The Hydaburg Village Public Safety Officer responded to an assault call at 20 minutes after midnight on Saturday morning and discovered that 29-year-old Damon Frank had assaulted a family member. Frank was […]