Tough Enough: 17-Year Old Seward Girl Wins Olympic Gold Medal After Practicing In Frosty Resurrection Bay

Resurrection Bay in summer. (File Photo, Copper River Country Journal)   First Alaskan Swimmer To Medal In Olympics  Unable to swim in the c...

Smoke From Fire Visible On Tok Cutoff: Black Hills Fire Blazes Through Black Spruce Thickets In Tetlin Refuge

A growing fire in Tetlin Wildlife Refuge is billowing smoke that can be seen from nearby roads – including the Tok Cutoff. The fire is 56 mi...

CRNA Warns Public: There's Limited Covid Testing Capacity In The Region

   "We Are Currently Not Able To Immediately Test Everyone..." "We Encourage High-Risk Individuals & Elders To Immediatel...

Delta Variant Reaches The Copper Valley: July, 2021

SURGE: Covid In The Copper Valley  For weeks there seems to have been little new Covid activity in the Copper River Valley. That seems to ha...

Sunday, July 18th: DUI & Violating Conditions Of Release

FROM TROOPER REPORT Location:   Glennallen Type:  DUI Dispatch Text: On 07/18/2021 at approximately 1259 hours, Alaska State Troopers conduc...

Copper Valley Lightning Strikes: Sunday, July 18th, 2021

Hot Days, Rain, Thunder & Lightning   Lightning Strikes Hit The Ground All Over The Copper Valley On Sunday  Alaska Wildland Fire Inform...

Starting July 26th, Permits Will Be Available For Federal Subsistence In Wrangell-St. Elias

Information From The Park Service On How To Apply For Subsistence Permits  Copper Center NPS building. (Photo, Mike Townsend, NPS)  The Nati...

72-Year Old Michigan Man Drowns While Swimming at Victory Bible Camp, Mile 94 Glenn Highway

Troopers, EMTs, Helicopter & Dive Team Called To Locate Missing Swimmer At Religious Summer Camp  Family, friends and other campers trie...

This Week In 1898 In The Copper Valley: Jim Buckley Fell Into The Copper & Was Swept Away Forever

July 10th, 2021  Copper River History:  Falling Into The River This Week In 1898   In early July, 1898, a group of miners was headed up the ...

Wildlife Troopers: 35-Year Old Anchorage Man Guilty Of Multiple Caribou Hunting Violations At Tyone Lake

Infractions Committed Last Fall, 2020, Troopers Said  Trooper Report: Location:  Tyone Lake - GMU 13 Type:  Over-limit caribou, Wanton waste...

Wednesday, July 7th: Helped By Cool Damp Weather, Firefighters attack Munson Creek Fire

Munson Creek Fire Slows Its Advance  Firefighters take advantage of cool, damp weather to engage Munson Creek Fire White Mountain firefighte...

Troopers Say 39-Year Old Nelchina Man Was Speeding At 100 MPH July 4th In Wrong Lane On The Glenn Highway

A 39-year old Nelchina man has been accused of DUI by Alaska State Troopers in a July 4th, 2021 incident on the Glenn Highway at Mile 150.  ...

Copper Valley Red Flag Alert Expires But Burn Ban Is Issued

Forestry Has Issued A Burn Ban For  Copper River Country   A burn permit suspension is in place for the Copper River Basin, Delta Junction, ...

BLM To Start Issuing Federal Subsistence Permits On July 12th In Glennallen

Federal Subsistence Permits will be available to Federally qualified subsistence hunters beginning July 12, 2021, at the Bureau of Glennalle...

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