A mixture of young and veteran Alaska firefighters left BLM Alaska Fire Service facilities at Fort Wainwright Friday morning to help with the busy fire season in the Lower 48. Three emergency firefighter crews from Upper Kalskag, Selawik and Noorvik plus the University of Alaska-Fairbanks Nanook Fire Crew were handed two sack lunches and boarded […]
A Montana woman was seriously injured in a pedestrian-Semi incident on Monday on the Denali Highway according to trooper reports. Troopers responded to the scene at 5:15 pm on Monday to find that 24-year-old Montana resident Amalia Laughlin had been parked alongside the highway at mile 124 with her dog out of the car. When […]
72-year-old Roland Maw, who was at one time Governor Bill Walker’s nominee to the Alaska Board of Fisheries, was reported to have been originally charged with 17 counts that include theft and unsworn falsifications regarding six years of Permanent Fund distributions and Commercial Fishing applications, it was revealed in Juneau on Wednesday. Maw, a resident of […]