Chinook winds that exceeded 80 mph Tuesday caused damage in areas around Delta Junction and Denali. The southerly airflow also set or tied some daily high temperature records.

A Delta Junction man was killed Sunday in a wreck near Fort Greely when his SUV slammed into the back of a slow-moving Army Humvee on the Richardson Highway, according to Alaska State Troopers.

A moderate earthquake and dozens of aftershocks rumbled through the eastern Interior this afternoon.

The volunteer fire department that covers the greater Delta Junction area has temporarily shut down operations, following a financial breach that’s left it unable to pay for insurance.

Chinook winds gusting up to 75 miles an hour Saturday blew trees onto power lines and knocked out electricity for up to 10 hours in an area stretching from North Pole to Tok.

Denali National Park and Preserve rangers have decided it’s too dangerous to recover the bodies of the pilot and passenger of a small airplane that crashed last week in a remote and mountainous area of the park. Meanwhile, an investigation into the crash continues.

Alaska State Troopers are looking for a couple of tourists from Tennessee who missed their return flight home and haven’t contacted family members.

Authorities have released the names of the two victims who are presumed to have died after the airplane they were in crashed Wednesday in a steep ravine in the southwest corner of Denali National Park and Preserve. And now park rangers and investigators are trying to figure out how get to the crash site and recover the victims’ bodies.

Authorities say the Wednesday crash of a small plane in Denali National Park and Preserve, spotted from the air by rescuers who couldn’t initially reach it, likely killed anyone aboard.

State and federal firefighters hustled Tuesday to respond to a second day of lightning strikes that have ignited more than 50 wildfires around the state since Monday afternoon. And the agencies released new estimates on the number of lightning strikes around the state over the past two days.