Circle News

The Sitka Local Foods Network will host a brief historical gardening presentation by Elizabeth Kunibe, "Growing in Sitka and Southeast Alaska: Food of Today, Tomorrow and 200 Years Ago," at 5 p.m. Friday, Oct.

Staff from Poker Flat Research Range have traveled north to assist fire personnel in mapping Interior Alaska's Crazy Mountain Complex fires with unmanned aircraft.

A Department of Transportation worker claims the advice of a psychic more than 3,000 miles away led him to the likely remains of a missing Wasilla woman.

Staff from Poker Flat Research Range have traveled north to assist fire personnel in mapping Interior Alaska's Crazy Mountain Complex fires with unmanned aircraft.

Resources: Hand Crews 13 DozersA A A A A A A A 4A A A A A A A A Engines 6A A A A A A A A Helicopters 3A A A A A A A A Water TendersA A A A A A A A 1A A A A A A A A Overhead PersonnelA A 87 Total Personnel: 311 UAF's Unmanned Aerial Vehicle made two flights over the fire area yesterday collecting aerial photographs and thermal images to monitor fire ...

The Chugiak Volunteer Fire Department sent a pair of brush trucks and two firefighters north to assist with fighting the growing Interior wildfires.

Firefighters swarmed to tackle yet another Interior wildfire Monday, this one threatening cabins near Fairbanks after the driest month ever recorded in the city.

A PUBLIC BRIEFING WILL BE HELD DAILY AT 10AM AT THE SCHOOL The Crazy Mountain Complex with the Bluff Creek Fire near Circle is currently the priority fire in the state at this time.

At 9 p.m., the Bluff Creek fire was 5 miles west of Circle and "moving at an extreme rate, with crowning and torching," said fire information officer Sarah Saarloos with the Alaska Fire Service.

A 18,000-acre wildfire was threatening the village of Circle, off the Steese Highway about 160 miles north of Fairbanks, on Saturday night.

In brief: Hot licks Published: June 2nd, 2009 06:38 PM Last Modified: June 2nd, 2009 06:39 PM Learn to cook Allen & Peterson offers Viking Cooking School classes weekly in Anchorage.