At 7:06 am on Sunday morning residents on the southern Kenai Peninsula were shaken awake by a 5.3 magnitude earthquake. The shaker originated 15 miles west of Homer at the mouth of Kachemak Bay in Cook Inlet. While lasting several seconds the quake caused little or no damage and no tsunami alert was issued. USGS […]
Alaska State Troopers based in Anchor Point netted a female fugitive from Justice with $70,000 worth of extraditable warrants out of Idaho during a traffic stop on the Sterling Highway in Homer on Sunday morning just after midnight, troopers reported on Tuesday. When stopped troopers conducted identity checks on the driver and passenger and found […]
Alaska State Troopers say that alcohol was a factor in a DV assault that took place in Fritz Creek near Homer on Friday evening. Troopers received a call reporting a DV assault involving a weapon at 5:09 pm on Friday and responded to Wilshire Drive. Upon arrival, it would be found in the investigation that […]
The schools in the Kenai Penninsula School District were placed on a soft lockdown on Tuesday morning after a Homer teen threatened to commit a school shooting, troopers reported. The Federal Bureau of Investigations contacted Alaska State Troopers at 7:47 am on Tuesday and informed them that they had been notified that a 16-year-old teen […]