Palmer, AK: MEA has started the first of ten engines at the new Eklutna Generation Station (EGS) power plant. This marks a major milestone in the plant’s commissioning process which started earlier this fall. ‘What a great day for our members,’ remarked MEA Board President, Elsie E. ‘Lois’ Lester. ‘We have been working towards this […]
Palmer Troopers received a 911 call from a concerned person on Porcupine Avenue in Wasilla on Saturday afternoon. They reported to troopers that they had observed a suspicious vehicle parked in a neighbor’s driveway, and that two females were there siphoning fuel from a pickup truck parked there into a gas can. Troopers responded to […]
Alaska State Troopers in Palmer reported on Thursday that sometime between last week and Wednesday, thieves stole braided aluminum wire from behind the Mat-Su Regional Hospital near the Matanuska Electric Association construction site. The trooper investigation revealed that braided aluminum steel-core wire had “literally been cut from hanging wires off power poles.” Taken were […]
A large 6.2 magnitude startled residents in the south central region of Alaska today when it began what seemed like minutes-long shaking at 9:51 am on Thursday. The quake, felt as far north as Fairbanks and throughout the Kenai Peninsula, and even Kodiak, occurred just 80 miles to the northwest of Anchorage. The quake knocked […]