Hot and dry weather and winds from the north-northeast pushed the Swan Lake fire within two miles of the Sterling Highway on Sunday. The advancing wildfire prompted a closure of the highway and the relocation of firefighters as the flaming front became obscured in smoke. Alaska Interagency Management Team asked for traffic to be […]
Image: Jay Cable of Fairbanks hikes a ridge of cottongrass on a trek from the Dalton Highway to Eureka. Photo by Ned Rozell. On a Saturday morning near the summer solstice, nine people stood on a smoothed pile of gravel at Mile 5 of the Dalton Highway. A man talking to the group, the […]
Weekday Lane Closures in June on Seward Highway to Complete Geotechnical Work (ANCHORAGE, Alaska) – The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities is moving forward with field investigations this month on the Highway Safety Project: Seward Highway Rock Fall Mitigation. Work includes analyses of locations between mileposts (MP) 104 and 114 with a history […]
Drivers are encouraged to check road conditions at 511.alaska.gov before traveling (FAIRBANKS, Alaska) – The Denali Highway is now open from Cantwell, on the Parks Highway, to Paxson, on the Richardson Highway. Beginning in mid-April, maintenance and operations crews with the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOT&PF) removed snow, thawed culverts and […]