An attempted traffic stop on a 1999 Chevy pickup at the intersection of the Parks Highway and Clapp Road ended in a high-speed chase and collision followed by a K9 search for the suspect, troopers reported on the trooper dispatch on Sunday. Troopers on patrol attempted to pull the truck over at 2:46 am […]
A Bethel Alaska Army Guard UH-60 helicopter responded to a location 30 miles northeast of Bethel late Thursday afternoon in reference to a commercial aircraft crash and lifted four uninjured survivors to Bethel. The Yute Air charter PA-32 was en route to Bethel from Aniak with three passengers when it went down after the […]
Troopers responded to and investigated a fatal two-vehicle collision on Knik Goose Bay Road on Tuesday morning. When AST arrived on the scene, they found a young woman, 20-year-old Payton L. Petersen, had died at the scene. The investigation, that closed down KGB Road for a time, found that Petersen had been traveling outbound […]
HEADQUARTERS, U.S. ARMY ALASKA, FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska – A Fort Wainwright Soldier was killed Friday, March 15, in a head-on collision involving two motor vehicles at Mile 89 of the Parks Highway between Talkeetna and Willow. Pfc. Prentice Letroy Lewis-Rankin, 20, of Brewton, Alabama, was pronounced dead at the scene according to Alaska State […]