The ice road truckers putting Alaska on the trade map By Kieron Monks. ... the James Dalton Highway lay underwater, following ice storms that burst the banks of the Sagavanirktok “Sag” River.

The Lower 48 has experienced a massive freight recession over the past few years, but the opposite is occurring in one place in the United States: Alaska. With various North Slope oil production ...

Construction of ice roads on Alaska's North Slope is growing steadily. The state has permitted 377 miles of such roads this year, the most in at least eight years.

Ozzie Demientieff and his granddaughter head downriver from Bethel, Alaska, on the Kuskokwim River ice road. Credit: Katie Basile/High Country News “For the few months that it exists, it makes ...

Alaska's statewide flooding has destroyed scores of homes from large ice chunks. Officials shut down one of the state’s few east-west highways to one lane.

This year, the crew is also, for the first time, receiving federal money: Lawmakers included ice road maintenance funds, distributed through a state program called Safe Ice Roads for Alaska, in a ...

“We deliver mail on the ice road when it’s safe,” Laraux said. Laraux said Alaska Hovercraft services eight villages along the Kuskokwim that includes those between Napakiak to Tuluksak.

Every state entity in the area uses the ice road, including the Alaska State Troopers. Each time Leary saw a trooper on the ice road, he took a picture and emailed it to state officials.

Leary said that he had been hopeful the ice road could stay open longer for the use of communities along the river. The Kuskokwim Ice Road is seen just outside of Bethel on March 22, 2024 ...

Mark Leary is part of a team that builds an ice road each winter along 200 miles of the Kuskokwim River, connecting 13,000 people in small communities in a region of Southwest Alaska that lacks ...

The sun rises over an ice road on the frozen Beaufort Sea near the Caelus Energy LLC Oooguruk Development Project in Harrison Bay, Alaska, U.S., on Friday, Feb. 17, 2017.

Trucking is booming in Alaska compared to the Lower 48 where a massive freight recession has resulted in recent bankruptcies and layoffs. A chronic driver shortage has boosted pay, with full-time ...