Last month, the Anchorage Police Department along with its federal, state and local partners conducted one of its largest crime suppression sweeps of violent offenders called Operation Midnight Sun (click on link: local.nixle.com/alert/6640880/). Officers made multiple arrests including 52 for felony and misdemeanor warrants and more than 400 grams of drugs were seized. Almost $44,000 […]
Alaskans love fungi. This was evident one Saturday when author and mycologist Lawrence Millman offered a mushroom walk at Creamer’s Field on one of the wettest days of the yellow-leaf season. “Eighty people showed up in the rain, all eager to learn about fungi,” Millman said by email after returning to his home in Massachusetts. […]
It’s early August, 118 miles from the Arctic Circle. Time for a walk to work. The last time I wrote about hiking through the North Campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, summer was a puppy crashing into your shin. Now it has a white muzzle. I note this maturity while moving through a nice […]
A man is in jail with no bail set after a traffic stop by Alaska State Troopers for multiple equipment and moving violations early on Sunday morning. Troopers pulled over a 2003 Hyundai Accent at 12:57 am on Sunday near Iliamna Drive in Wasilla. THe officers contacted the driver, 25-year-old Wasilla Michael Yunker. It was […]