ALASKA HIGHWAY NEWS

It doesn't take long after a rodeo wraps up before somebody around the North Peace is asking how Jake Gardner made out. With the season the Fort St. John bull rider has been putting together, it's really no surprise. Supplied photo Gardner has spent much of the year riding against some of the best bull riders in the world, putting together a string of solid rides and keeping himself firmly in the conversation for a trip to his first National Finals Rodeo. His biggest payday

A quilt might catch your eye but at Peace Gallery North, it might also inspire a story. Earlier this month, Peace Gallery North announced the winners of its latest ekphrastic writing competition where local writers were invited to create original stories and poems inspired by artwork featured in the gallery. Now as the Fort St. John Country Quilters' exhibition winds down after spending July on display, another collection of artwork is giving local writers plenty to think abo

Most of us probably don't give a second thought to the gear firefighters pull on before they climb into a truck and head out the door. For the men and women at the Charlie Lake Fire Department, though, what they're wearing matters just as much after the call as it does during it. Photo from media release The new gear was rolled out following a department training session on July 9, bringing to an end months of planning, funding, ordering the gear and getting everybody fitted

By Karla MarshSpecial to the AHN Before the surveyors and trailblazers could cut a line marking the right-of-way for the Alaska Highway, the road first needed to be “located.” The highway was to connect the existing airbases at Fort St. John, Fort Nelson, Watson Lake, Whitehorse, Big Delta and Fairbanks, known together as the Northwest Staging Route. However, although It was known which towns and villages the route would connect, the actual location of the road between th