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Residents who spoke opposed the trucking plan, with most saying they didn’t oppose mining. Objections included everything from school bus stop concerns and traffic safety to potential damage caused to

Durham School Services plans to start more meetings with Black Gold Transport as the North Pole-based trucking company nears the start of its ore hauling.

Doyon Inc. recently purchased land at Lighthouse Village on Homer Spit Road

As the state begins looking beyond fossil fuels, mining companies are quietly preparing to take over its highways.

The trouble is, it’s all trouble, and no benefit for most of us. Here is a list of very negative factors which make the Manh Choh /Kinross deal one of

To the editor: In answer to Mr. Gene Salzman’s question about the petition objecting to the Kinross trucking plan being at the fair, I have good news. You can find

As the state begins looking beyond fossil fuels, mining companies are quietly preparing to take over its highways.

To the editor: When I first came to Alaska in 1968, gold was $43.50 an ounce. Six years earlier, the gold dredge age had just ended. The slender corridor of

A new study predicts accidents will increase next year when big trucks begin hauling gold ore 240 miles from a mine in Tetlin to Kinross’s Fort Knox mill. That’s one of many findings reviewed Tuesday by a state Transportation Department committee analyzing the trucking route.

A reconsidered resolution about a gold ore trucking plan was toned-down considerably last week by the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly. The Assembly passed a resolution March 9 to oppose the plan to bring ore on heavy trucks 240 miles up the Richardson Highway from the Manh Choh mine in Tetlin. But one member who voted for it then, moved to look at it again.