A large rock fell off of a construction vehicle traveling in the construction zone near mile 58.7 of the Sterling Highway on Thursday afternoon killing an eight-year-old boy, troopers are reporting. Troopers responded to the scene on the Sterling Highway 10 miles from Cooper Landing at 1:23 pm on Thursday after receiving a report that a volleyball-sized rock had […]
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Seismologists at the University of California, Riverside studying earthquakes in the seismically and volcanically active Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone have found that “slow earthquakes” are occurring continuously, and could encourage damaging earthquakes. Slow earthquakes are quiet, can be as large as magnitude 7, and last days to years. Taking place mainly at the […]
The search for habitable, alien worlds needs to make room for a second “Goldilocks,” according to a Yale University researcher. For decades, it has been thought that the key factor in determining whether a planet can support life was its distance from its sun. In our solar system, for instance, Venus is too close to […]
Alaska State Troopers have yet to arrest a Kodiak woman after a crash on the Chiniak Highway in Kodiak due to injuries and her subsequent treatment at the Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center, the trooper dispatch reported on Sunday. Troopers received a REDDI report on a vehicle going through a construction zone on the Chiniak […]