...has jump-started this project," said Andrew Niemiec, Department of Transportation and Public Facilities Northern Region Director. "We expect to have an active new terminal addition in the spring of 2008 to welcome our summer visitors...

...critical to creating a roadway which can be driven safely and maintained this winter," Ralph Swarthout, DOT's Northern Region director, said in a statement. Temporary repairs on the Tok Cutoff should be completed by early December. Pilot cars...

...Department of Transportation has been charged with drunken driving and assaulting two Alaska State Troopers. Northern region director Andrew Niemiec, 43, was arrested Saturday night after driving his vehicle into a ditch along the Parks Highway...

...trails and other developments in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough are in the works. Howard Thies, DOT acting northern region director, said the Stampede Road project will be on hold while the department measures it against competing projects...