[dropcap]A[/dropcap]NCHORAGE, Alaska — The Bureau of Land Management rescheduled the four remaining public scoping meetings that were postponed due to the Nov. 30 earthquake in Anchorage. The meetings are intended to gather public comments that help guide the development of a new Integrated Activity Plan (IAP) and associated Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the […]
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]laska State Troopers report that a Soldotna man is in custody following a standoff at mile 131 of the sterling highway on Sunday morning after SERT with a bearcat tactical response vehicle was deployed. AST received the report of a Soldotna man brandishing firearms at motorists who had stopped to assist him. According to the report, […]
[dropcap]C[/dropcap]oncertina wire had been laid, extra border patrol officers had been deployed to the U.S. Mexico border, and ports of entry, “hardened.” Yet, none of it stopped the border clash on Sunday when suffocating tear gas was fired by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officials against Central American migrants whose peaceful protest had spiraled out […]
A Gas-n-Dash motorist was apprehended on the Kenai Peninsula on Tuesday and now faces several charges as a result of his arrest, AST says. Just before 10 pm on Tuesday night, an Alaska State Trooper on patrol was waved down by a Holiday Gas Station employee in Kenai who reported that a white four-door sedan […]