Ben Jones recently returned to the tundra site of a plane crash that in May took the life of the pilot, and left Jones bloodied and broken. Jones is a do-it-all scientist with the Institute of Northern Engineering at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He is inventive and opportunistic, pursuing curiosities of northern Alaska […]
An Astra rocket launch from the Pacific Spaceport Complex on Kodiak island ended sooner than expected on Friday night when the vehicle suffered oscillations and safety systems shut down the engines and it crashed back to the ground in a spectacular explosion. The launch at 11:19 pm was a test of the company’s first […]
Early Saturday morning, after receiving multiple calls reporting an accident Chena Pump Road/Chena Ridge Road intersection, troopers responded to the scene. When they arrived at the location just before four this morning, they discovered “debris on the roadway and a clear path off the road leading to a vehicle in a slough off Chena […]
A 40-year-old Kenny Lakes man perished in a fatal rollover on the Old Edgerton Highway south of Copper Center on Sunday morning troopers report. Troopers were informed and responded to mile 5 of the Old Edgerton Highway at 8:50 am on Sunday morning to find a Kenny Lakes man, Peter Young, dead at the […]