No injuries were reported in a hard landing of a Piper PA-22 that occurred on an airstrip located near Gas Well Road and Jones Stub Road in Soldotna on Monday. At 5:25 pm on Monday afternoon, troopers responded to that Soldotna location after receiving a report that an aircraft had crashed. Upon their arrival, troopers […]
Troopers report that on Thursday evening they received an unnatural death call from a 24-year-old female in Soldotna. The Soldotna woman, whose name was not revealed called in to 911 at 6:20 pm “reporting that she had found her 12-month-old son unresponsive in the bathtub,” troopers said in the trooper dispatch. Troopers and Central Emergency […]
Soldotna-based Alaska State Troopers reported an early Monday morning Road Rage incident on the the Kenai Peninsula in Wednesday’s trooper dispatch. According to the report, two individuals encountered 39-year-old Soldotna resident Warren Hodge stopped in the middle of Gas Well Road in his vehicle just after 6 am on Monday. When the two victims attempted to […]
Ed Berg has spent much of his life observing the natural happenings on a large peninsula (the Kenai) that juts from a larger peninsula (Alaska). The retired ecologist who worked many years for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been around long enough he might see a second version of the most damaging insect […]