FAIRBANKS, Alaska — Due to upcoming construction at the main gate to Fort Wainwright on Gaffney Road, Visitor Center operations will relocate to Montgomery Gate from July 22 to August 22. There will also be no temporary weapons storage at any gate during that period, but Gaffney Gate will remain open 24/7 during the construction. […]
FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska – After a nearly 4-month closure due to construction, Fort Wainwright’s main gate reopened at 11:59 p.m. on September 23. Initially expected to reopen in early October, the gate re-opened about a week ahead of schedule. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held in the afternoon to make the formal announcement of the completion […]
FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska – The U.S. Army Garrison Alaska Directorate of Public Works will begin work to improve the main installation gate on Gaffney Road on June 2. This project will better enable the Directorate of Emergency Services to provide security while managing vehicle traffic flow. The Main Gate and current Visitor Center will be […]
In their dispatch on Tuesday, troopers reported that on Sunday morning at 3:28 am, a van that had been impounded, crashed through a gate and escaped. The van had been impounded approximately 18 minutes earlier by University police in Fairbanks for expired tags, according to the dispatch. But, the 1983 Chevy van, license plate EUS326, did […]