(ANCHORAGE, Alaska) – The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOT&PF) is targeting problematic conditions along Southcentral’s high-speed rural highways in the Anchorage, Matanuska-Susitna Valley and Kenai Peninsula areas to increase safety for Alaskans. A region-wide effort to remove selected trees in higher crash areas is underway. Each year, DOT&PF highway safety engineers evaluate […]
Soldotna-based Alaska State Troopers reported an early Monday morning Road Rage incident on the the Kenai Peninsula in Wednesday’s trooper dispatch. According to the report, two individuals encountered 39-year-old Soldotna resident Warren Hodge stopped in the middle of Gas Well Road in his vehicle just after 6 am on Monday. When the two victims attempted to […]
A 50-year-old Sterling man was arrested after a fumbled attempted getaway on Friday troopers say. Troopers had responded to 50-year-old Matt Lauchart’s residence on Friday shortly after noon to serve an outstanding arrest warrant on him, troopers reported. But, when Lauchart saw the troopers approaching his location on Bear Drive, Lauchart sped away from the […]
The Alaska Bureau of Investigation released additional information into the trooper-involved shooting of the Sterling motorist, Jon Ployhar, that occurred at mile 82 of the Sterling Highway at 11:20 pm on last Saturday. According to the report, Trooper John King, of the Soldotna Patrol, attempted to pull over Ployhar on a traffic stop for an […]