Alaska State Troopers, along with the Fort Greely Fire and Rescue from the Valdez Avalanche Center, are responding to a possibly fatal avalanche report in the area of Summit Lake last night. The call came in to troopers at 7:45 pm on Monday night from a snow-machiner at that location, but because the closest assets […]
Statewide) — From Alaska’s southern reaches north to Fairbanks and points beyond, word has it that bears are waking and starting to move. And that can mean only one thing: It’s time for Alaskans to assume their best “bear aware” behavior. “We had a report the other day of a grizzly out around Nordale Road,” […]
Review of latest genetic evidence suggests infectious diseases are tens of thousands of years older than previously thought, and that they could jump between species of ‘hominin’. Researchers says that humans migrating out of Africa would have been ‘reservoirs of tropical disease’ – disease that may have sped up Neanderthal extinction. A new study suggests […]
A new forecast for the 2016 sockeye salmon fishing season in Bristol Bay says the fishery, which opens by regulation on June 1, is expected to have a run of some 46.6 million fish, with 29.5 million potentially available for commercial harvest. The figures were released on April 4 by the Alaska Department of Fish […]