This Day in Alaskan History-May 27th, 1905
A backyard science expedition, in diapers
My backyard adjoins the thousand-acre wood that makes up the north campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Several times over the last few decades that I’ve been employed as a science writer, I have written stories set within this large chunk of mostly undisturbed boreal forest. Today, a researcher visited me here in response […]
Anthony Peterson Found Guilty of Murder in the Second Degree
(Fairbanks, AK) – On May 17, a Fairbanks jury found 47-year-old Anthony Peterson guilty of Murder in the Second Degree for the 2021 murder of 18-year-old Brett Allen. The jury acquitted Peterson of Murder in the First Degree. The jury heard from 16 total witnesses across five days, including Peterson. The guilty verdict demonstrates that the […]
This Day in Alaskan History-May 22nd, 1906
