(JUNEAU, Alaska)—The AMHS 2023/2024 Winter Schedule is now available for reservations. “Thanks to everyone that engaged, gave us feedback and shared important dates with us. We’ve incorporated a great deal of the community feedback we received,” said DOT&PF Commissioner Ryan Anderson. “With this active dialog, we have allocated our resources where they can be most […]
Things an Alaskan notices while standing on a road in Costa Rica: Trees are shaped like mint-green umbrellas rather than charcoal-green rocket ships. Flesh-colored flowers smell like warm honey as they fall with a plop from a tree to sticky pavement. A bird perched on a power line has turquoise eyebrows and a double tail […]
Rod Boyce of Two Rivers, Alaska, reports that he has noticed — at a time when the outside air’s temperature has not been above freezing since October — three butterflies living in his heated garage. Though we in middle Alaska will be thinking a lot about insects in a few months, mosquitoes and their kin […]
The U.S. National Weather Service said Saturday the life-threatening cold temperatures and dangerous wind chills that a good portion of the country is currently experiencing could create “a potentially life-threatening hazard for travelers that become stranded, individuals that work outside, livestock and domestic pets.” The weather service said, “If you must travel or be out […]