All lanes on the Seward Highway are currently open following snarls that closed down northbound traffic and slowed southbound traffic to a crawl as motorists were subject to pilot cars that lead them through the McHugh Creek fire area on Tuesday. On Tuesday, the fire that raged just south of Anchorage, expanded quickly in size […]
(ANCHORAGE, Alaska) – The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (ADOT&PF) is launching a pilot program to improve passing lanes through the use of “differential” speed limits on the Seward Highway Mile 60-65 (Hope Junction to the top of Turnagain Pass). Differential speed limits maintain the normal speed limit in the left (fast) lane, […]
Alaska State Troopers have released the names of the driver and passenger who died as a result of a head-on collision on the Seward Highway on Friday. Identified were 36-year-old Jackson Moore and 25-year-old Cherise James, both of Kasilof. Troopers with the Bureau of Highway Patrol-Girdwood Team, responded to the multiple-vehicle accident scene just north of […]
A 72-year-old man had to be extricated from his vehicle following a crash at mile 90 of the Seward Highway on Sunday afternoon. At 1:16 PM Sunday afternoon, Alaska State Troopers and the Girdwood Fire Department responded to the scene of a motor vehicle collision. Once there, the Girdwood Fire Department removed 72-year-old John Samuelson […]