The Parks Highway at the Glenn Highway interchange was closed down for approximately an hour and a half on Thursday morning following a traffic incident involving several vehicles, Alaska State Troopers reported. AST responded to the scene at 5 am on Thursday to find several vehicles in the ditch along the snowdrift-covered highway. The drifts caused […]
A Friday morning crash injured a driver as he was checking his trailer straps at mile 52.5 of the Seward Highway troopers reported Saturday morning. According to the report, 3o-year-old Kenai resident, Jessie Knisley, was traveling on the highway at that location, when he pulled over into a pullout to check the straps on the […]
Iranian rescue teams, battling weather and mountainous terrain, have located the wreckage of a plane that crashed with 65 people on board, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported Monday. The Aseman Airlines flight left Tehran Sunday morning for the city of Yasuj in Isfahan province, but went down in the Zagros mountains. Officials fear all […]
All 71 people aboard a Russian passenger plane were killed when it crashed near Moscow, Russian officials said Sunday. “Sixty-five passengers and six crew members were on board, and all of them died,” Russia’s office of transport investigations said in a statement. Three children were among the victims. The seven-year-old plane disappeared from the radar […]