DENALI NATIONAL PARK — When I was 12 years old, I didn’t know permafrost was like frozen lasagna. I didn’t know what permafrost was. I grew up in a small town on the Hudson River in New York. But here is my 12-year-old daughter and her classmates, gathered amid fragrant tundra plants. She is sitting […]
The identity of a woman found in a trailer fire by firefighters in August has now been positively identified, AST reports. It was on August 25th of this year that Alaska State Troopers were notified by the Fairbanks Fire Department that they were on scene at a structure fire on Townsend Way in Ester. Several fire units had […]
Alaska State Troopers responded to a serious multiple vehicle accident that resulted in several fatalities at mile 156.5 of the Parks Highway late Monday afternoon. According to the report, the collisions included a 2018 Subaru Outback, a GMC Sierra and two motorcycles. The collisions took the lives of the occupants of the Subaru and two riders on one […]
Floating down the Fortymile River, we saw a cut in the green hills that hinted of a creek. My canoeing partner and neighbor, Ian Carlson, 13, wanted to see a ghost town. The map told us one should be dead ahead. There, up a path of floury soil, was Franklin, Alaska. Like many Alaska ghost […]