This spring, John Yarie learned of the death of the oldest living things he knew. Since 1988, the silviculture professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks had measured and fertilized a stand of giant spruce trees on a hillside south of Fairbanks. A few weeks ago, forest technicians visited the site and found that one […]
There was a serious ATV accident on Red Ribbon Road in Kasilof at Mile 113 of the Sterling Highway late Friday night that took the life of one shortly after 11pm. The Bureau of Highway Patrol-Kenai Peninsula responded to the crash scene at 11:32pm and found that 30-year-old Benjamin Kruse and his three-year-old son were […]
Trooper dispatch reports that troopers with the Criminal Suppression Unit made two arrests at a residence on Williwaw Way on Saturday following an investigation of thefts in the Wasilla area. Troopers went to a residence on Williwaw Way on Saturday and arrested 22-year-old Raymond Keown III for thefts that occurred on May 9th, 12th, and […]
Troopers on the Parks Highway received a call from a hiker in distress on Sunday at Fox Creek along the Parks Highway and responded to the scene. When they arrived, they found 18-year-old Cherelle LaGroo stranded on a rock ledge on the side of the mountain there. Two troopers were able to scale the mountain […]