(JUNEAU, Alaska) – The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (ADOT&PF) is selling the M/V Taku through a sealed bid sale. The minimum bid price is $1.5 million and interested bidders must have a bid bond of $5,000. The complete bid package is available on the state’s Online Public Notice website. ADOT&PF is selling the vessel “As […]
With dogs’ breath fogging the 30-below zero air at their knees, 71 Iditarod mushers steamed their way down the frozen Chena River in Fairbanks on March 6. Upstream, just a few miles behind them, 500 ducks were surviving in a one-mile stretch of open water. You might think the mallards that did not migrate […]
Troopers received a report of a deceased female near the community of Akiachak on Wednesday morning, the on-scene investigation resulted in another being the subject of charges being forwarded to the Bethel District Attorney’s office for DUI and Criminally Negligent Homicide, the troopers reported. The call went in to troopers at 8:47 am on Wednesday […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON — On the bright, chilly morning of March 5, a small crowd of onlookers and well-wishers listened to the sound of the Alaska Air National Guard’s C-130H Hercules turboprops recede into the distance for the last time. The wing’s divestiture of the last of the 144th Airlift Squadron’s C-130s marks a sea […]