Fire destroys playground equipment at South Anchorage elementary ...
ANCHORAGE - The playground of a South Anchorage Elementary School was set on fire Monday night, Anchorage fire officials told Channel 2 News. A fire at Willard L. Bowman Elementary School was reported at 8:06 p.m. according to Anchorage Fire spokesman John See. When two units from Station 9 arrived at the scene, two rubber seats on playground equipment and the rubber matting on the ground were on fire, according to Fire Captain Steve Barenburg. The fire spanned about a 15 X 25 feet area, Baren..>> view originalSnow shipped to Anchorage for Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race after ...
It's an exhaustive long-distance race that usually takes a minimum of nine days to complete.But it's fairly difficult to complete a dog sled race without snow, as Alaska is realizing right now.Later this week, seven rail carts full of snow will be delivered to downtown Anchorage - which has had an unseasonably warm winter - ahead of the start of the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Saturday.The delivery will amount to between 300 to 350 cubic yards of snow, after the snow that fell this y..>> view originalAnchorage is so snow-starved it has to haul snow in by train for ...
How weird has Anchorage's weather been this winter?Weird enough that an Alaska Railroad spokesman said Monday that a train will deliver seven rail cars loaded with snow to the state's largest city this week in time for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race ceremonial start on Saturday.On top of that, the route for the Anchorage ceremonial start may not run the full 11 miles from Fourth Avenue to Campbell Airstrip, said Stan Hooley, Iditarod CEO, in a brief statement emailed Monday evening to Alaska D..>> view originalMissing 23-year-old found safe in Eagle River
UPDATE: Missing 23-year-old found safe in Eagle River By KTVA CBS 11 News 4:14 AM March 1, 2016 ANCHORAGE – Updated at 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 1 David Gonzalez was located in Eagle River, according to a release from the Anchorage Police Department. He is safe, they said. Original story Anchorage police are asking for help locating a 23-year-old man, missing since Monday night. David Gonzalez, identified as a “vulnerable adult,” was last seen leaving a residence on foot in the are..>> view originalAnchorage baby successfully recovers from heart transplant
A little boy from Anchorage, born with severe heart defects, has a new shot at life thanks to a successful heart transplant. Lincoln Seay got a new heart during surgery performed at Seattle Children’s Hospital on Feb. 19“He doing incredible. He’s getting out of ICU soon. He's well on his way to healing,” said Mindy Seay, Lincoln’s mom, who works as a paralegal in Anchorage."Lincoln is doing well and will soon be moved from the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit to the Surgical Unit, where he will con..>> view originalWarm temperatures, lack of snow a February trend across Alaska
Estimated read time 1m 29s Warm temperatures, lack of snow a February trend across Alaska By Rachael Penton 11:48 AM March 1, 2016 ANCHORAGE – February was a warm month in Anchorage, but just how warm was it compared to normal? Now that the numbers are in, February 2016 will go down as the fourth warmest February on record for Anchorage. The average temperature came in at 29.9 degrees for the month, about 9 degrees above normal. It’s no secret warm temperatures led to slim snow total..>> view originalAlaska Republicans plan for high turnout on Super Tuesday
ANCHORAGE – John Kasich Courtesy Facebook Dr. Ben Carson Courtesy Facebook Marco Rubio Courtesy Facebook Ted Cruz Courtesy Facebook Donald Trump Courtesy Facebook Twelve states are up for grabs on Tuesday and while Alaska only has 5 percent of the delegates, when the fight for second place and the chance to de-throne Donald Trump is in a dead heat every delegate matters. That’s why Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz have representatives in Alaska campaigni..>> view originalMoose found dead in yard after reports of gunfire in Anchorage ...
A moose was found dead from a single gunshot wound Sunday morning in the yard of a Jewel Lake-area home, according to Anchorage police.At 12:16 a.m. Sunday, police went to Country Brook Circle due to several callers reporting they’d heard gunshots, Anchorage Police Department spokeswoman Renee Oistad said in an email.Officers found nothing at that time, but a caller provided the license plate of a suspicious vehicle seen in the area, Oistad said.At 7:22 a.m. police returned to the neighborhood o..>> view originalMoose found fatally shot Sunday in Sand Lake area yard, police say
UPDATE:Channel 2 spoke with several neighbors who heard the gunshots, including a woman who called in a license plate number to police.“It was about 12:15 and we were awake upstairs in our bedroom and I heard boom boom boom boom, like four immediate shots,” said the woman who did not identify herself out of concern for her safety.Both Anchorage Police and an Alaska Wildlife Trooper followed up on the license plate number.“Those folks were cooperative and we did not find any evidence on scene to..>> view originalVillage awarded federal grant for river turbine design
Village awarded federal grant for river turbine design By Dan Joling / AP 12:13 PM March 1, 2016 ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – The U.S. Department of Energy has picked a southwest Alaska village for funding to advance development of an underwater river turbine that could replace diesel power with clean energy. The department awarded Igiugig $393,500 grant for designing the next phase of river turbines. The turbine will be designed by Ocean Renewable Power Co. of Portland, Maine. The village..>> view original
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