This morning, through the west window, I noticed a flash of white. I looked up from breakfast to see a short-tailed weasel popping from a hole in the snowpack. He was sleek and streamlined and snow-white, except for where his tail looked like he dipped it in black paint. Later, a leggy snowshoe hare bounded […]
Alaska State Troopers, along with the Fort Greely Fire and Rescue from the Valdez Avalanche Center, are responding to a possibly fatal avalanche report in the area of Summit Lake last night. The call came in to troopers at 7:45 pm on Monday night from a snow-machiner at that location, but because the closest assets […]
(FAIRBANKS, Alaska) –The Taylor Highway is now open from the Alaska Highway to the city of Eagle. Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (ADOT&PF) Maintenance and Operations crews started removing snow and ice along the 160-mile road in late March. The Boundary Spur, also known as the Top of the World Highway, remains closed until […]
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 […]