Seattle — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently reached an agreement with Stepping Stone Builders, Inc., to close an illegal motor vehicle waste disposal well in Fairbanks, Alaska. EPA banned motor vehicle waste disposal wells in 2000 and required all existing wells in Alaska closed by 2005 to protect underground sources of drinking water. During a […]
Alaska State Troopers report that iPads stolen in a burglary of the Tok school have been recovered by troopers in Northway. At just before 6 pm on Tuesday, an employee at the Tok School reported that someone had entered the school and made off with 42 iPads. The value of the tablets was estimated at […]
Alaska State Troopers responded to several intrusion alarms set off beginning at approximately 1:45 am early Monday morning, that would keep troopers busy until daybreak in the Fairbanks area, troopers report. At 1:47 am troopers responded to the Badger Gas Station, in the first of several alarms on Monday morning. The attempted break-in at the […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued a pilot after his plane crashed in the vicinity of Ptarmigan Pass about 130 miles northwest of Anchorage, Aug. 3. The pilot’s brother contacted the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center Thursday morning with concern that the pilot was […]