ALASKA HIGHWAY NEWS

Bear Flat Dispatch. October 15, 2026. Thanks to Premier Eby, we are stuck with having an unnecessary and expensive provincial election happening concurrently with the regularly scheduled municipal elections. However, the Conservatives should thank our Premier for pulling their fractured party together where they themselves were failing miserably, although that newfound solidarity may yet prove to be fragile. Anyway, such is the hand we were dealt. There are many issues at s

Bear Flat Dispatch. June 6, 2026 Supplied photo The region is being hit hard by caterpillars this spring with lots of bare poplar trees and greasy roads about. Soon the leaves will grow back, and all will be forgotten, but I have heard that some people will need to replant parts of their gardens because the caterpillars cleaned out what was up. We normally are not hit too hard here at Bear Flat by caterpillars, but we sure are this year. The first I noticed was when one of

Bear Flat Dispatch. May 14, 2026 Arlene and I have had a semi-official private museum here at Bear Flat for about 20 years that has generally operated by word of mouth. It started from a combination of homesteading type artifacts mostly from her family (the Bentley’s), and my log building restoration skills, and has slowly grown from there. When Highway 29 was moved due to the Site C reservoir, our collection of old log buildings suddenly became very visible to the traveling