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 […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued Tuesday morning three lost hikers who were suffering from possible hypothermia, 10 miles north of Palmer. According to Alaska State Troopers, they received a phone call at 11:11 p.m. Monday notifying that three hikers had become lost […]