An Anchorage woman was arrested for DUI on Wednesday, despite efforts by a passenger in the vehicle to “hinder prosecution,” after troopers responded to investigate, the trooper dispatch reported on Thursday. Troopers responded to the collision at the Glenn Highway/Parks Highway Interchange at 6:30 pm to find that 23-year-old Mechelle Gaffney collided with the guardrail as […]
(ANCHORAGE, Alaska) – The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOT&PF) is targeting problematic conditions along Southcentral’s high-speed rural highways in the Anchorage, Matanuska-Susitna Valley and Kenai Peninsula areas to increase safety for Alaskans. A region-wide effort to remove selected trees in higher crash areas is underway. Each year, DOT&PF highway safety engineers evaluate […]
Fairbanks’s air turns bitter every winter as we fill it with woodsmoke and other things, but just down the road Denali National Park has the clearest air measured among America’s monitored national parks. Scientists at Colorado State University have taken a close look at Denali air as captured near the park entrance. A monitor there […]
Two people were arrested on the Parks Highway for several charges that included theft, burglary and escape on Saturday morning. Multiple moving violations prompted troopers to pull over a 2004 Mercedes Sedan at 1:44 am on Saturday morning. When stopped, the driver of the vehicle provided troopers with a false name, but their investigation revealed […]