After three days of trenching and laying cable through the Valdez tidal flats, in the early morning hours of September 29th 1904, the U.S. Army Transport Burnside began laying 650 miles of cable from Valdez to the southeast community of Sitka. The steamer was successful in its task of laying the cable, which would cut […]
Multiple calls went in to the APD dispatch at just after midnight reporting a woman suffering from critical injuries and unconscious in the street on the 3400-block of Eureka Street. When authorities arrived at the residential area, they found the victim bleeding profusely from an upper body gunshot wound. She was rushed to the hospital […]
On the North Slope of Alaska, snow is melting earlier in the spring and the snow-in date is happening later in the fall, according to a new study by Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) researchers. Atmospheric dynamics and sea ice conditions are behind this lengthening […]