transportation

The stretch of road is one of only two ways to get between the two communities and has a higher car crash rate than the statewide average. It also has the second-highest rate of moose collisions in the state.

The bypass project aims to alleviate traffic congestion through the community by adding ten new miles of highway.

Last week, the state transportation department issued an open call for contractors to provide “Eminent Domain Appraisal Review Services” for an 11-mile section of the Seward Highway.

The grant totals $1.13 million from the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, passed as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

Thursday’s Sterling Safety Corridor Improvements open house comes about four months after a similar meeting in Sterling and with new data that shed light on why the Sterling-to-Soldotna stretch is so dangerous.

Eligible students are newly allowed to park their all-purpose vehicles in the school's parking lot this year.

This year, the cuts impact six schools on the central peninsula: Soldotna Elementary School, Soldotna Montessori Charter School, Tustumena Elementary School, Skyview Middle School, River City Academy and Soldotna High School.

Safety corridors are segments of state highways with a high number of fatal and serious injury vehicle crashes.

The meeting comes roughly eight months after a similar community town hall event, where borough residents voiced their concerns about corrosion and the safety impacts of the department’s brine use policy.

Ravn Alaska said it will buy 50 electric planes from the California-based company Airflow when they come onto the market. Airflow’s planes will use…