An accident on the Parks Highway took the lives of two Monday evening. Alaska State Troopers and Alaska Wildlife Troopers responded to a report of a head-on collision at mile 152 of the Parks Highway at 5:50 pm on Monday to find that two people were killed and another two seriously injured. The investigation at […]
COAST GUARD CUTTER HEALY, Arctic Ocean – Coast Guard and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers successfully landed an unmanned aircraft system on the flight deck of Coast Guard Cutter Healy Monday, marking the first time a UAS has completed a take-off and landing aboard a Coast Guard icebreaker. UAS operators from AeroVironment, designers […]
Some biologists hang from ropes to study birds. Many rise painfully early in the morning. Stacia Backensto disguised herself as a man. At the time, Backensto worked in the oilfields on Alaska’s North Slope. Her study subject was ravens, and she took to wearing a moustache because they seemed to recognize her as she roamed […]
Alaska State Troopers are now seeking the whereabouts of another escapee from the North Star Detention Center on Thursday. Troopers released a statement today asking for help locating Vincent Blue-Matheny, who fled from the center at 10:33 am today while paperwork for his transfer from Fairbanks Correctional to the Center was being processed. Troopers describe […]