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Courtesy of Mike EmersTuesday’s crash in the Cripple Creek area southeast of Fairbanks shook the neighborhood with several explosions. Witnesses report their windows rattling and the ground trembling. For the family closest to the crash site, it was traumatizing. -
Denise Sanborn Brown/video screenshotAlaska State Troopers say traffic was slowed and restricted for two hours Sunday through a stretch of the Richardson Highway north of Delta Junction after Manh Choh mine ore haul trucks backed up on Tenderfoot Hill in slippery conditions. Five other ore trucks stopped on both sides of the hill and waited for help.
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The public comment period for the Ambler Road Draft Supplemental EIS opened on Friday, October 20. The public now has 60 days to comment on the 211-mile mining road. -
The citizen committee set up to analyze the highway corridor between the Mahn Choh gold mine in Tetlin and the Fort Knox mill talked about highway bridges again Thursday, Oct. 12. -
The University of Alaska and the State are hosting a three-day international drone aircraft conference in Anchorage starting today. It will showcase how uncrewed aircraft can respond to emergencies, haul freight and gather scientific data. Recent test flights have proven drones can replace traditional piloted planes. -
School bus stops on the ore-hauling route from the Manh Choh gold mine in Tetlin to the Fort Knox mill north of Fairbanks were discussed yesterday by the Technical Advisory Committee. -
The state Department of Transportation will close the major intersection at the eastern end of Airport Way this weekend for nine days to put the finishing touches on a $15 million project that’s been under construction for more than a year now. -
Kinney Engineering, the contractor hired by Alaska DOT, estimates that running ore trucks on the Alaska, Richardson and Steese Highways will cause millions of dollars in pavement damage annually. -
NewsThe city of Nenana will host a celebration Saturday to commemorate the 100th anniversary of two important milestones in the history of transportation in Alaska -
Fairbanks’s drone center is celebrating 25 automated flights to Alaska villages last month. The flights were made in a Cessna Grand Caravan, without a person in the pilot’s seat, (although there was a safety pilot ready to take over on every flight.) The tests demonstrated how emergency medicine, and eventually cargo, could be delivered across the state. -
The State Department of Transportation will begin overnight closures of the Dalton Highway tonight to make some emergency repairs on the Koyukuk River bridge at milepost 188, near Coldfoot. -
The state Department of Transportation has almost completed repairs on a stretch of the Dalton Highway near Deadhorse that was partially washed-out last week by the Sag River.
