FAIRBANKS — I left my home here to begin a hike along the Trans-Alaska pipeline in late April. Returning in June, I am stunned by the green of it all. It’s like winter to summer in one day. I’ve been in Alaska’s second-largest city for a few days now, resupplying for the trip north as […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Melvin C. McLaurin of Chicago was identified as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employee killed in a construction accident June 19 at North Pole. McLaurin worked as an engineering equipment operator lead with the Corps’ Chicago District. He was on a temporary assignment in support of the Corps’ Alaska […]
The Alaska Bureau of Investigation announced that the ABI has made an arrest in the nearly 2-year-old Casler/Butler homicide case at noon on Tuesday following consultation with the Palmer District Attorney’s office. 42-year-old Bruce Floyd Butler, the husband of Lynn Butler, was arrested on two counts of Murder I. It was on July 3rd, 2015, […]
A Fairbanks man suffered life threatening injuries after a crash on Van Horn Road on Tuesday evening, troopers report. A Ford pickup traveling on Van Horn Road at 6:20 pm on Tuesday failed to stop for a stop sign, and crashed into a Subaru crossing through the intersection. As a result of the crash, the […]