DEADHORSE, Alaska) — The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (ADOT&PF) increased commercial traffic Tuesday through Miles 395-405 Dalton Highway. Tuesday, 204 vehicles total transited the flooded section of highway. This total includes northbound and southbound traffic. Convoys of up to 50 commercial vehicles began transiting the flooded section of highway northbound at 8 […]
Under its own power, an earthworm gains about 30 feet of new territory each year. But that does not help explain how worms got to Alaska. “It’s almost geologically slow,” Matt Bowser, said of the earthworm’s locomotion. Bowser, Alaska’s closest thing to an expert on earthworms, is an entomologist with the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. […]
(DEADHORSE, Alaska) — The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (ADOT&PF) is increasing traffic through Miles 395-405 Dalton Highway. For safety reasons, this is limited to commercial vehicles only. The Dalton Highway between Miles 395 to 405 remains closed to all private vehicles. Beginning Tuesday, April 14, 2015, convoys of up to 50 vehicles will […]
Governor Bill Walker declared a state disaster in response to flooding that has made the Dalton Highway impassable. The state will fund eligible emergency response cost, and eligible repair work, for the water overrun along the Dalton Highway. Beginning March 13, the Sagavanirktok (Sag) River overflowed the Dalton Highway between Mile 390 and Mile 405 […]