AST reports that the driver of a 2019 Volkswagen Golf died in a collision at mile 30 of the Seward Highway on Tuesday afternoon. At 1:33 pm on January 12th, the Golf was traveling on the highway headed north at a high rate of speed and crashed into the rear end of a DOT road […]
Alaska State Troopers report that one is dead and three were injured and transported to Anchorage hospitals after a fatal collision of two cargo/box trucks on the Seward Highway on Tuesday morning. Seward-based troopers, Cooper Landing EMS, and Girdwood EMS responded to mile 62 of the Seward Highway after the Soldotna Public Safety Communications Center […]
Multiple year highway safety project starts next week with lane closures (ANCHORAGE, Alaska)—The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOT&PF) and contractor, HI-TECH Rockfall Construction, will start work next week to secure rocks at seven locations between MP 104-114 on the Seward Highway. The seven locations were selected for improvements based on the […]
Alaska State Troopers based in Seward and Soldotna, along with Alaska Wildlife troopers responded to a fatal multiple-vehicle collision at mile 45 of the Seward Highway at 7:11 pm on Sunday evening. The subsequent investigation at the crash scene revealed that a 2002 BMW sedan, driven by 34-year-old Arleigh Bacarella of Nikiski crossed over […]
UPDATE: The next of kin to the deceased in the crash have been notified and Anchorage police have revealed their identities as 66-year-old Paul Matson and his daughter, 25-year-old Lea Matson. ORIGINAL: Anchorage police say that they believe that winter conditions were responsible for a fatal collision on the Seward Highway where two died, […]
Alaska State Troopers report that following an autopsy spanning a half-year, the remains of the woman found near the Hope Cut-Off showed she died as the result of a homicide. 28-year-old Shirley Skeek, who was known to have suffered a medical condition, was reported missing on January 2nd by her family after not having […]
Repairs will require overnight closures from Sunday, Nov. 17 through Tuesday, Nov. 19. (Anchorage) – The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOT&PF) will be conducting emergency repairs to the Seward Highway at Moose Creek, Milepost 32.9. The construction contractor and DOT&PF personnel will begin work to remove a severely damaged culvert on Friday, […]
Homicide Unit investigators with the Anchorage police say that an SD card with imagery led police to arrest an Anchorage man on homicide charges on Tuesday. It was 4:06 pm on September 30th that APD responded to an address on Lake Otis Parkway after a caller at that address called APD dispatch to report that […]
Alaska State Troopers announced on Tuesday that they made an arrest in the 1978 murder and sexual assault of 16-year-old Shelley Connolly. They report that they took into custody Gresham, Oregon man, 62-year-old Donald F McQuade and charged him with first and 2nd-degree murder. Connolly’s body was found near Beluga point next to the Seward […]