Searchers in Fairbanks continue to search for a man who was last seen slipping beneath the surface of the Chena River near the Peger Road Bridge on Tuesday afternoon. The man, who authorities have yet to identify, was one of four people who went into the water after their raft overturned on the river at about […]
Instead of falling to the dozer blade, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program has new life. In mid-August, U.S. Air Force General Tom Masiello shook hands with UAF’s Brian Rogers and Bob McCoy, transferring the powerful upper-atmosphere research facility from the military to the university. You may have heard of HAARP. Nick Begich wrote […]
Alaska State Troopers began searching for a Fairbanks teen at 4:12 pm on Friday afternoon. It was reported by trooper dispatch that 19-year-old Triston Edwards was reported to be suicidal and had cut off his ankle monitor that he was ordered to wear while on probation/parole. Troopers searched for four hours for Edward’s vehicle, a 2001 […]
This is not Henry Allen’s Tanana River. Nor is it the Trail River of people living here thousands of years before the nineteenth-century government explorer struggled his way down the Tanana. But it seems close. I’m on a family trip down the wide brown river, starting where it arcs from the mountains to Fairbanks. Wife, […]