A crash on the Seward Highway claimed the life of one after a rollover at mile 88 on Wednesday. At 8:19 pm, Alaska State Troopers out of Girdwood and the Bureau of Highway Patrol-Kenai Peninsula Team responded to the rollover crash that involved a Chevy van and two occupants. When they arrived at the scene, […]
Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid filed cloture on Senate Bill 2363, the Bipartisan Sportsman’s Act, without any Republican amendments added to it this morning. This action by Reid will probably cause Republicans, 20 of which have co-sponsored the bill, to pull their backing and filibuster the bill. It was only Monday that the Senate voted […]
On Oct. 6, 1883, this entry was in the Alaska Commercial Company logbook at an English Bay trading post, located about 50 miles northeast of Augustine volcano: “This morning at 8:15 o’clock, 4 tidal waves flowed with a westerly current, one following the other . . . the sea rising 20 feet above the usual […]
On Tuesday, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board in Fairbanks gave the go-ahead for the community of Kotzebue to move forward with opening a city-owned bar/restaurant in the city of just over 3,200 people. The new establishment will be the only business in the community that can sell alcohol for use on the premises in the […]