The public identification this week of more than 300 suspected agents of Russia’s military intelligence service, the GRU, is being dubbed by security analysts the largest intelligence blunder in Russian post-Cold War history. And the cause for the bungling comes down, they say, to the simple “human factor” of wanting to avoid traffic fines, including […]
July 20, 2018 ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The Alaska State Troopers want to remind motorists to be especially mindful of safe driving practices and highway laws over this weekend. AST is expecting traffic to be heavy on the Kenai Peninsula due to multiple events drawing people south and increasing traffic. This weekend is the second weekend […]
In August 2016, the first large cruise ship traveled through the Northwest Passage, the northern waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The following year, the first ship without an icebreaker plied the Northern Sea Route, a path along Russia’s Arctic coast that was, until recently, impassable by unescorted commercial vessels. In recent decades parts of the Arctic seas […]
APD is investigating a fatal New Seward Highway traffic accident that occurred early Sunday morning police revealed on Nixle. A call reporting a roll-over on the New Seward Highway near the Rabbit Creek Road exit went in to Anchorage police at 3:50 am on Sunday. Police responded and their investigation would find that “the driver of a […]