Alaska State Troopers report that the remains of a woman retrieved from the river off of Rappalla Road in Houston were confirmed to be those of 56-year-old Diana Pittser, who disappeared and was last seen on December 29th. The remains were discovered and recovered on Sunday morning, but, troopers declined to identify those remains as […]
A new study finds that, contrary to previous assumptions, the Arctic tundra releases at least as much methane during its cold season as it does during summer. The amount of methane gas escaping from the ground during the long cold period in the Arctic each year and entering Earth’s atmosphere is likely much higher than […]
At 7:13 pm on New Years Eve, Alaska State Troopers in Wasilla performed a traffic stop on a 2002 Saturn sedan for equipment violations on Copper Creek Road. During the traffic stop, the trooper observed a passenger in the vehicle attempting to ingest drug paraphernalia. When the trooper ordered the passenger, identified as 27-year-old Geoffery […]
The Pilot Station School in Pilot Station, approximately 80 miles from the Bering Sea on the northern banks of the Yukon River, was the scene of a very damaging break-in and burglary over the weekend where thousands of dollars of damage was done to the rural school. The principle of the school called in to […]