Some Manley Hot Springs residents are frustrated by a lack of guidance on how to deal with contaminants in their homes and yards.
Weather
The Lily is a ghost barge, and she is floating down the Kuskokwim
Last fall, Alaska Logistics left two barges to freeze in Y-K Delta rivers. One has dislodged and become a free-floating ghost barge, winding down the Kuskokwim River.
For Alaska wildland fire crews, cutting firebreaks serves as training while reducing hazardous fuels
Alaska’s wildland firefighters have been completing their annual training and, with help from a state grant, strategically cutting and removing trees, many of them killed by spruce beetles.
Sleetmute and Red Devil have declared local disaster emergencies following flood damage
The water has since receded, and the National Weather Service has ended its flood warning for the Kuskokwim River.
Dozens of cars still stuck behind Seward landslide as road clearing work begins
Excavators worked through the day on Monday to start clearing spruce trees, mud and boulders that blocked off Lowell Point’s only road access to Seward.
Residents take stock of damage as floodwaters recede in Manley Hot Springs
Manley resident Sabrina Jervsjo said there’s damage from the water, and even worse, fuel spills. “I think everybody in Manley Hot Springs purchased heating fuel before the cost went up,” she said. “It’s just a sheen across everywhere.”
Resurrection Lutheran Church finishes first winter as Juneau’s cold weather shelter
Pastor Karen Perkins said the shelter was near capacity almost every day. “We were scrambling to find cots.”
Millions of Alaska-bound honeybees die at Atlanta airport
Hundreds of pounds of honeybees bound for Alaska died last weekend when their crates were left for hours on a hot tarmac in Atlanta.
The largest April wildfire in Alaska in a quarter century is burning near Kwethluk
The fire still is not threatening the community of Kwethluk or any Native allotments.
Rock slides close the North Douglas Highway
One lane on the highway is open for emergency vehicles, but it is closed to the public.