Alaska State Troopers responded to the Moose River near Sterling at approximately 7:30 pm on Monday evening following a report of a swimmer at the confluence of the Moose and Kenai Rivers disappearing beneath the surface. Good Samaritans launched watercraft as Central Emergency Services, Fish and Wildlife also took up the search. The Nikiski […]
Hot and dry weather and winds from the north-northeast pushed the Swan Lake fire within two miles of the Sterling Highway on Sunday. The advancing wildfire prompted a closure of the highway and the relocation of firefighters as the flaming front became obscured in smoke. Alaska Interagency Management Team asked for traffic to be […]
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook the inhabitants of the southern Kenai Peninsula and Kodiak Island awake at 1:52 am. While the quake was quite significant, the tsunami center reported that no tsunami is expected. The shaker was generated at a depth of 40 miles beneath the mouth of Cook Inlet near the Barren Islands […]
A distraught Soldotna woman with a handgun prompted a state trooper response to a Soldotna residence on Monday evening, troopers reported on the trooper dispatch. Troopers responded to the address at 6: 52 pm on Monday in reference to a woman who had fired a handgun in the home while issuing threats. They contacted 56-year-old […]