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With as much as 100 feet of permafrost soils, deep thawing will keep roads rough
50+ min ago (790+ words) Before being patched with thick black asphalt during recent weeks, the roads across Goldstream Creek’s swampy valley bucked my car like a whitewater raft in the Nenana River canyon. This is not news. I’ve bobbed over these road waves for…...
Anchorage ties record for wettest July, with more rain likely
23+ hour, 3+ min ago (328+ words) Anchorage has tied the precipitation record for July after Thursday’s rainfall capped a stretch of rainy weather, according to forecasters. Through Thursday, 4.49 inches of rain have fallen in Anchorage this month, according to the National Weather Service. That matched the…...
Tropical Storm Bertha makes landfall on southern Louisiana with threatening winds
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (497+ words) Tropical Storm Bertha crawled into southern Louisiana on Wednesday, making landfall and packing strong winds far from its center after closing beaches from the Florida Panhandle to Mississippi. The National Hurricane Center said Bertha made landfall in the afternoon in…...
Firefighters battle one of Spain’s biggest-ever wildfires during heat wave across the Mediterranean
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (956+ words) BARCELONA, Spain — Firefighters in central Spain battled a wildfire on Wednesday that has burned over 79,000 acres in one of the country’s largest blazes on record. The fire in rural Guadalajara comes less than two weeks after a deadly blaze devastated…...
Letter: I asked Google for help and got the AI assistant runaround
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (158+ words) I understand that glitches sometimes happen. But for Google to create a system so rigid and absolute that there is no way to resolve a problem without a PIN that, for me, never existed — well, there is only one word…...
Heavy, prolonged rain triggers flood watches for Anchorage and Kenai Peninsula
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (175+ words) Heavy rain over the weekend into Monday is prompting flood watches around Anchorage and other parts of Southcentral Alaska. The alert, issued late Sunday, also cautioned of the possibility of rockfall along the Seward Highway. A landslide over the weekend…...
Letter: Pike aren’t the problem in this fish story
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (235+ words) I’m 84 years old and have caught pike in the Deshka River for 60 years. Decades ago, when kings were plentiful, the pike didn’t have to migrate downriver because there were enough fry to satisfy their hunger. [Related coverage: Climate change is…...
Opinion: What Alaska can learn from Iceland’s geothermal success
6+ day, 23+ hour ago (538+ words) People around the world know Iceland for its geothermal energy. But what if Iceland’s greatest energy asset isn’t geothermal itself? What if it’s the people who developed the knowledge and expertise and the workforce that grew alongside it? That question…...
Wildfire smoke from Canada and Minnesota pushes farther into the U.S. and engulfs DC in haze
1+ week, 19+ hour ago (973+ words) NEW YORK — Millions of people in the Great Lakes, Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states muddled through another day of unhealthy air from uncontrolled wildfires on Friday. The thick smoke enveloped the nation’s capital in a gloomy, eerie haze and prompted Major…...
Too few caribou, too many bears: Bristol Bay subsistence hunters favor state bear cull to protect food
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1747+ words) Last in a three-part series. This story was produced with support from the Pulitzer Center. DILLINGHAM — Puttering around his yard, Frank Woods III pulled two black trash bags out of a chest freezer. Inside was a dead bear. Parts of…...