A brief, 6.2 magnitude earthquake rattled the Kenai Peninsula at 6:35 pm local time and was located 43 miles south-southwest of Mount Redoubt about 145 miles southwest of Anchorage. The jolt that jarred residents along Cook Inlet was generated in what is generally known as the Aleutian Arc in the region where the Pacific Plate […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and aircrews from the 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment continue to conduct water bucket drops in support of wildfire suppression efforts in Alaska this week. “We’ve flown more than 36 hours, dropped 365 buckets and dispensed 254,500 gallons of water since Sunday,” […]
Juneau, Alaska – The Alaska House of Representatives Monday passed a bill to incentivize natural gas refining and fertilizer production, in an effort to help restart the Kenai Peninsula’s Agrium fertilizer plant. House Bill 100, by Speaker of the House Mike Chenault, allows a company that produces urea or ammonia or gas-to-liquids products to credit […]
Four individuals were arrested in an ongoing investigation into the theft of snow machines in the Soldotna area that began mid-February by the Alaska State Trooper Criminal Suppression Detail. It was on February 18th that Alaska State Troopers were notified that an Arctic Cat snow machine was stolen from the area of Echo Lake Road […]