SEWARD, Alaska — The name “Healy” carries a lot of history in Alaska and the Arctic. It was Capt. Michael “Roaring Mike” Healy who spent 20 years as judge, doctor and policeman to Alaskan natives as a member of the U.S. Revenue Cutter service in the 19th century and traveled with renowned naturalist John Muir […]
A Homer man was held without bail in the Homer Jail after an accident on Saturday night at the intersection of the North Fork Road and Cottonwood Drive on the southern Kenai Peninsula. Troopers responded to the scene after a report came in to DPS of a vehicle in the ditch at that location at […]
An early morning argument over alcohol and a folding chair erupted in gunfire when one of the people involved in the argument pulled a handgun and fired off rounds on Saturday morning. Alaska State Troopers were notified of the disturbance at 5:05 am on Saturday morning and responded to the scene at the Knik River Campground near […]
Alaska State Troopers reported on the Trooper dispatch this morning of a plane crash at the Big Lake Airport at 2:25 am Sunday morning where the pilot of the aircraft lost his life and the passenger in the plane suffered possibly life-threatening injuries. According to troopers, killed in the crash was pilot, 50-year-old Christopher Cyphers […]