Oil spill amounts in the Santa Barbara oil spill that occurred on Tuesday have been revised upward from the original 21,000 gallons that Plains All American Pipeline Company stated and the U.S. Coast Guard repeated. The pipeline company says that as much as 105,000 gallons may have escaped from the burst pipeline. It is unclear […]
Despite an escape attempt by an Anchorage man arrested during a drug sweep, both subjects of the drug arrest were taken into custody on Monday. State-Wide Drug Enforcement-Mat-Su Unit, along with Anchorage SCIU and Anchorage WAANT concluded an investigation into the importation of heroin into Anchorage from California came to a conclusion at 9:45 pm […]
On the first of March, Troopers received a report of a vehicle smashing into a deer on the Third Avenue Bypass in Ketchikan. The caller reported that the occupants of the vehicle, “a small red Toyota truck” with California plates, exited the truck, loaded the deer and left the scene at approximately 6 pm. Later […]
The atmospheric conditions associated with the unprecedented drought in California are very likely linked to human-caused climate change, researchers report. Climate scientist Noah Diffenbaugh of Stanford University and colleagues used a novel combination of computer simulations and statistical techniques to show that a persistent region of high atmospheric pressure over the Pacific Ocean–one that diverted […]