FAIRBANKS – Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service (BLM AFS) Smokejumpers will take to the sky starting Thursday, April 5 in preparation for the upcoming fire season. Training jumps will occur through April and May, primarily between 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The tempo will increase May 9-11 with the addition of parachuted cargo […]
When an alarm was triggered at the Brown Jug at 4140 Old Seward Highway on Sunday, police units responded to the scene to find that one of the loading bay garage doors was open. Police set a perimeter and entered the business to clear the area. After clearing the basement and the first floor, officers […]
A Fairbanks woman was arrested after she rammed another car with her vehicle and then tried to run her husband over during a domestic violence incident on Friday morning, AST reports. Troopers were called out at 2:16 am on Friday morning after receiving a domestic criminal mischief call on the Old Steese Highway North. When they […]
It was announced on Thursday that the former Finance Director for the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council has been indicted on several charges concerning misapplications of federal funds by a grand jury this week. 38-year-old David Michael McGraw of Fairbanks was indicted on charges of misapplication from an organization receiving federal funds, money laundering, and making […]