A massive flood has wreaked havoc on the Dalton Highway, Alaska’s critical lifeline to the Prudhoe Bay oil fields, leaving a gaping 80-foot-wide hole in the road. The disaster struck on Saturday ...

Frozen Debris Lobe A is still moving: As of today, a UAF monitoring site estimates it’s less than a meter away from the old highway site, and 109.7 meters from new, rerouted Dalton Highway.

Flooding that closed Alaska's Dalton Highway also caused widespread ground sinking Date: October 11, 2023 Source: University of Alaska Fairbanks Summary: The massive 2015 flooding of the ...

Alaska highway workers have moved the Dalton Highway to protect it from a giant mass of frozen debris oozing down a hillside. The approximately mile-long frozen debris lobe, consisting of dirt ...

Tuesday, the highway was closed between Miles 355-415 because of 45 mph winds and heavy, drifting snow. Visibility is zero.

The Dalton Highway slices through northern Alaska from Livengood to the oil fields of Prudhoe Bay. Built in 1974 as the service road for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, the highway is not to be taken ...

UPDATED: April 22, 2016 at 4:02 PM MDT DALTON HIGHWAY, alaska — Although it was early June, snowflakes were drifting down the unforgiving slopes of the slate-gray canyon.

Alaska’s ‘haul road’: An article in Thursday’s Section A about the Dalton Highway in Alaska identified a truck driver who regularly drives the highway as John Thomas. His name is John Taylor.