[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he 44-year-old Fairbanks man who was arrested on Wednesday morning driving a stolen Sierra still wrapped in its shipping wrap was out of jail and back to work stealing vehicles again by Wednesday night according to the trooper report on the dispatch. It was at 10:33 pm that troopers received a call reporting that […]
Fairbanks-based Alaska State Troopers spotted a vehicle driving down Van horn Road at 3:25 am, but what caught their eye was that the brand-new GMC Sierra was still wrapped in shipping wrap. Troopers conducted a traffic stop and pulled the vehicle over and made contact with the driver, who was identified as 44-year-old Jerry Green. […]
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]cross Alaska and a sliver of western Canada, 280 seismic stations silently do their jobs. Hidden in dark holes drilled into rock in boreal forest, northern tundra and mountaintops, the instruments wait patiently for the next tremor. The EarthScope Transportable Array of seismic monitors is now embedded across Alaska and Canada, adding 196 new stations […]
Fairbanks’ air quality issues began in 1901, when shallow water grounded a gold rush entrepreneur. That August day, when a hired steamship could take them no farther up the Chena River, E.T. Barnette and his wife found themselves deposited on a sandy shoreline in the middle of Alaska. Gold miners soon found Barnette had sacks […]