Troopers & Emergency Responders Spend 5 Difficult Days Searching For A Pilot Who Left The Scene

HATCHER PASS ABANDONED CRASH  Troopers, Civil Air Patrol Volunteers & Guardsmen Searched For Days In High Winds & Low Visibility... ...

Watch Out: Deep Snow Is Bringing Moose & Bison Out Onto The Highways

Moose Are Headed To The Roadways In the Copper Valley And Bison Are An Added Danger Near Delta  DOT Says To Watch For Animals On Highways  D...

A Day After CBS' 60 Minutes Show On Military Vehicle Dangers, One Of Them Flips On The Richardson

SEE 60 MINUTES CLICK HERE  Deja Vu All Over Again  On Sunday, February 6th, CBS'  60 Minutes Showed The Dangers Of Military Vehicles Ov...

National Park Service Shows Data On Glacier Monitoring, "Melt Models"

National Park Service Debuts An "Interactive Poster" About Kennicott Glacier    CLICK HERE    

Betty Person, 82, Passed Away October 15th, 2021

 Betty Person, Formerly Of Copper Center   Betty Person with smoked salmon strips. (Photo, Jim Gifford)  "Betty" (Elizabeth Ann Fr...

Delta Medical Transport: Copper Valley Ambulance Services Not Affected By Delta Issues

Delta Medical Transport Ambulance Service To Continue On Sound Basis In Valley  Delta Medical Transport ambulance in 2020 4th of July Parade...

State Says At Least 97 New Copper Valley Covid Cases: Jan. 26-Feb. 13

The State of Alaska, Department of Health & Social Services, keeps official records of Covid for people in the Copper Valley census area...

BLM Looking At Land Exchange With Chugach Alaska At Valdez-Copper Valley Border

  BLM  Wants To Make Land Available For Potential Exchange Near Thompson Pass   Bureau Of Land Management Looking At "Two Parcels Of La...

Massive 10-Car Pileup On Richardson Near Fairbanks When Passing Vehicle Hits DOT Grader

No Injuries Reported In Mile 354.8 Richardson Incident South Of Fairbanks  Trooper Report, February 2nd, 2022  DOT photo.  Location:  Fairba...

Copper Valley Electric Announces Plan: Can "Safe" Nuclear Power Work Here?

 CVEA Announces Collaboration With Seattle Company To Determine Feasibility Of Micro Modular Reactor Energy System   Graphic from Micro Modu...

Gulkana Weather Station Sputters Back To Life

Gulkana Weather Station Finally Operational After Almost A Week Jackie Purcell at the Channel 2 weather map which was mistakenly showing a h...

Update: Kenny Lake Crash At Mile 82 Rich Was Head-On, In Blowing Snow, Troopers Say

  Bad Road Conditions In Kenny Lake Contributed To Fatal Crash, Troopers Say  Updated Story Monday, January 31st, 2022   The Alaska State Tr...

There Were High Electric Rates Here In 1993, Too. Here's What Folks Said

FROM THE COUNTRY JOURNAL ARCHIVES  Electric Rates Were Over $100 A Month... What Residents Of Kenny Lake, Glennallen, Tazlina & Chistoch...

State Says 43 Copper Valley People Known To Have Gotten Covid In One Week

Alaska Health Department Says At Least 43 Copper Valley People Got Covid Between January 16th and January 22nd  If you think you have Covid ...

35-Year Old Valdez Man Killed At Mile 82 Richardson In Two-Car Crash Near Edgerton Junction

Copper Valley Has Been Experiencing Heavy Snow & Bad Roads  Mile 82 Richardson Highway In Kenny Lake. (Photo, DOT 511 January 28th)  Fat...

If You Can't Pay Your Electric Bill, Call CVEA To Talk About It

What If Somebody Just Can't Pay Those Big Electricity Bills?  Copper Valley Electric Responds   SEE ORIGINAL JOURNAL STORY CLICK HERE  E...

Troopers Say: Vehicle In Ditch On Tok Cutoff Led To DUI, Probation Violation Charges

Mile 119 Tok Cutoff Incident, Troopers Say   Location: Tok Type: DUI, Probation Violation Dispatch Text: On 1/24/22 at approximately 2020 ho...

Sourdough Joe Would Have Been Surprised

AS WE APPROACH END OF TWO YEARS, WE REVIEW THE THINGS THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO LOCAL PEOPLE   Sourdough Joe hand-tying fishing flies. (Photo, C...

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