A sensor array off the Pacific Northwest coast has captured the cracking, bulging and shaking from the eruption of Axial Seamount, a nearly mile-high undersea volcano, in more detail than ever before. A series of papers published this week in the journals Science and Geophysical Research Letters — and announced today during a press conference […]
A fire caused by a campfire was reported near White Mountain in northwestern Alaska on Thursday evening, the fire consumed a cabin and about 15 acres of the surrounding area were burned before the blaze could be brought under control. Troopers received a report of the fire, eight miles upriver from White Mountain at 8:30 […]
Alaska State Troopers report success in the search for the missing snow-machiner that was reported overdue during the early morning hours of Wednesday. Troopers, cooperating with the Northwest Arctic Borough Search and Rescue, initiated a search for a 54-year-old Brooklyn resident, Glenn Thomas, at 2:40 AM on Wednesday morning. He had been reported overdue on […]
A Search and Rescue for two overdue snow-machiners from Noorvik ended sadly on Friday, the trooper dispatch reported. At 12:07 pm on Friday, Alaska State Troopers were notified by the Northwest Arctic Borough Search and Rescue Coordinator, Lena Ferguson, that two men, identified as 34-year-old Richard Patterson and 44-year-old Fred Melton were overdue from a […]