(FAIRBANKS, Alaska) – The Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service (BLM AFS) in cooperation with local, state, federal and military partners implemented several successful prescribed fire projects this spring to reduce the risk of wildfires on military training areas. There were 31,517 acres and 400 woody debris piles burned on 15 military ranges in […]
Alaska State Troopers revealed on Monday, that after over three weeks of searching, the remains of 27-year-old Junior Leota were recovered by searchers from WSAR, PAWS, AWT, Alaska Dive and SAR team and family volunteers on the Chatanika River on Saturday. Leota was last seen when he crashed his ATV into the Chatanika River at Olnes […]
A driver in a 2004 Toyota Tundra suffered serious life-threatening injuries after a rollover accident on Badger Road in North Pole early Wednesday morning, troopers reported. The Fairbanks Police Department reported the accident to Alaska State Troopers According to the report posted on the trooper dispatch, 28-year-old Erin E. Powers of North Pole, was traveling on Badger […]
A high-speed car chase ultimately resulted in the arrest in a Sutton man on Monday evening along the Glenn Highway, troopers report. According to the report, troopers attempted to pull over a white Buick as it was traveling northbound on the Glenn Highway near Sutton exceeding speeds of 100 miles per hour at 7:46 pm. […]