(Fairbanks, AK) – On November 9, 2022, narcotics Investigators assigned with the Alaska State Trooper’s Statewide Drug Enforcement Unit (SDEU) seized over 4,100 counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl and 88 grams of heroin after concluding a multi-day investigation in the Fairbanks area. Additionally, Arizona residents 36-year-old Christopher Birdow, 37-year-old Daniel Barnes, and 29-year-old William Gurley […]
A University of Alaska Fairbanks postdoctoral researcher has helped NASA better understand two of the possible landing sites for the space agency’s Artemis program, which aims to land humans at the moon’s south pole and establish a sustainable base camp there. Planetary scientist Indujaa Ganesh assisted in the research of sites known as 007 and […]
On Sunday, Alaska State Troopers reported that a State Park Ranger, while out on patrol on Chena Pump Road made contact with 40-year-old Adam Bunker of Fairbanks. During the contact, Bunker began fighting with the ranger and then fled into the woods. The ranger reported the contact to troopers and they responded with a K9 […]
Alaska State Troopers revealed on Thursday morning that a driver who was the subject of a traffic stop on Sunday morning had killed himself rather than comply with trooper commands to step out of his vehicle. Fairbanks-based troopers report that they had pulled over a vehicle while on patrol for suspected DUI at 1 am […]