McGrath News

The blurb: Volume I is the most complete and accurate telling of how the fabled Iditarod Trail came to be.

For decades, Alaskans have numbed themselves to the shock and oddity of the state and federal expenditures that fall all around us.

Transferring more than 150 million acres from federal to state and private ownership taking longer than originally thought The Associated Press The federal Bureau of Land Management has filed public notice to convey more than 554,000 acres to a handful of Alaska village and regional Native corporations.

An interior Alaska community with just 46 residents is in line for a new $21 million airport.

State forest fire officials have pulled back crews from the Broken Snowshoe wildfire near McGrath.

Fairbanks is experiencing a historic stretch of dry weather, but the parched conditions still aren't translating into a big early fire season.

The Broken Snowshoe fire, 3.5 miles north of McGrath, is now 25,575 acres in size.

A wildfire burning near McGrath grew from 500 to 5,000 acres overnight and was approaching the central Interior village on the Iditarod Trail at a rapid rate, though it's burning on the opposite side of the Kuskokwim River.

Light rain fell on the Broken Snowshoe fire last night with a .04" accumulation.

Published: May 29th, 2009 01:57 AM Last Modified: May 29th, 2009 01:58 AM The wildfire burning north of McGrath nearly doubled in size for the second time this week, growing to more than 22,000 acres as of Thursday afternoon, fire officials estimate.

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The Village is a Daily News blog about life and politics in rural Alaska. Its main author is ADN reporter Kyle Hopkins.

Wildfires are expected to consume about 600,000 acres of wildlands in Alaska this year, according to the Alaska Fire Service.

A wildfire burning north of McGrath in Alaska's Interior grew to nearly 15,000 acres as wind blowing from the west fanned flames on Wednesday.

Smokey the Bear says HIGH fire risk...and the dense smoke from this huge fire emphasises that fact.

Continued lightning activity since the weekend in the Kuskokwim Valley has ignited five more wildfires in the McGrath area bringing the two day total to nine.

A wildfire started by lightning has burned about 500 acres in Interior Alaska. Alaska Department of Natural Resources officials say the fire is burning about 15 miles north of McGrath.

The Borealis Broadband webcam has been giving us a bird's eye view of the minute by minute developments of this rapidly changing fire.

A lightning burst this weekend in the Kuskokwim Valley ignited multiple wildfires.

Efforts are under way in Eagle to assess the damage caused when ice jams on the Yukon River caused massive flooding in the community.