Hot and dry weather and winds from the north-northeast pushed the Swan Lake fire within two miles of the Sterling Highway on Sunday. The advancing wildfire prompted a closure of the highway and the relocation of firefighters as the flaming front became obscured in smoke. Alaska Interagency Management Team asked for traffic to be […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska —Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th, 211th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued two distressed hikers with the assistance of two Alaska Mountain Rescue Group members June 17 near Mount Marathon west of Seward. AMRG is a nonprofit volunteer search and rescue organization dedicated to providing search and rescue […]
Just prior to 8 pm on Thursday evening Alasa State Troopers received a report of an armed car-jacking that took place near Hollywood and Vine in Wasilla. When troopers responded to the caller’s location they found that the man had been forced by gunpoint to start his vehicle before being “struck in the head […]
Alaska State Troopers report that they made contact with a Wasilla woman during a traffic stop at the Parks Highway and Boundry Street in Wasilla just after midnight on Thursday and found the woman had an arrest warrant and probation violations. Troopers say they made contact with Pamela Apangalook and soon found she had […]