Almost 400 Talkeetna homes were without power for a time on Thanksgiving day after a vehicle crashed into a power pole at the railroad crossing in Talkeetna early Thursday morning. Linemen with the Matanuska Electric Association did the repairs on the powerlines. Power to additional homes had to be cut to insure the safety of […]
A 6.0 earthquake struck California’s wine country early on Sunday morning rattling residents there at just before 3:30 am. Only a handful of people were injured in the quake with three people admitted for broken bones and a couple of others for heart attack admitted as a result of the rattler. Another 120 people were treated […]
Fairbanks, Alaska – Governor Sean Parnell Tuesday cleared the way for a new power plant at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). During a visit to the UAF campus, the governor signed Senate Bill 218, providing the university with $157.5 million of revenue bond issuance authority for the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Atkinson Heat and […]