(FAIRBANKS, Alaska) – Motorists on the Richardson Highway between Fairbanks and North Pole may see smoke from multiple prescribed burns on Fort Wainwright starting as early as tomorrow. As weather conditions permit, the Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service will assist the US Army Alaska in conducting multiple prescribed burns immediately southeast of Fairbanks and six […]
Alaska State Troopers, along with the Fort Greely Fire and Rescue from the Valdez Avalanche Center, are responding to a possibly fatal avalanche report in the area of Summit Lake last night. The call came in to troopers at 7:45 pm on Monday night from a snow-machiner at that location, but because the closest assets […]
Last Friday, an email popped up in all the mailboxes of people with the Geophysical Institute: Someone saw what might have been a wolf on the trails north of the UAF campus. “Please be cautious if skiing in the area.” A few people responded, saying they had seen one or two coyotes roaming the 1,000-plus […]
Alaska State Troopers report that they have apprehended a Fairbanks man that they had been seeking for the last month, after an anonymous tip on Saturday. An anonymous tip went in to troopers at 3pm in the afternoon on Saturday, informing them where they could find 24-year-old Fairbanks man Byron Toovak, who had walked away […]