FAIRBANKS – Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service (BLM AFS) Smokejumpers will take to the sky starting Thursday, April 5 in preparation for the upcoming fire season. Training jumps will occur through April and May, primarily between 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The tempo will increase May 9-11 with the addition of parachuted cargo […]
A Fairbanks woman was arrested after she rammed another car with her vehicle and then tried to run her husband over during a domestic violence incident on Friday morning, AST reports. Troopers were called out at 2:16 am on Friday morning after receiving a domestic criminal mischief call on the Old Steese Highway North. When they […]
It was announced on Thursday that the former Finance Director for the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council has been indicted on several charges concerning misapplications of federal funds by a grand jury this week. 38-year-old David Michael McGraw of Fairbanks was indicted on charges of misapplication from an organization receiving federal funds, money laundering, and making […]
A North Pole man was placed under arrest after a report of a man firing a weapon from a moving vehicle was called in to Fairbanks-based troopers at 6:34 pm on Tuesday evening. Multiple troopers responded to the scene in North Pole and learned that 52-year-old Curtis Gearhart had fired several rounds from his vehicle […]