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 […]
Alaska State Troopers are investigating the cause of a fatal ATV crash that occurred in the Sterling area on the Kenai Peninsula that took place on Monday evening. Troopers and Central Emergency Services responded to a location on Robinson Loop in the Higher Ground area at 5:43 pm on Monday night. Unfortunately, 13-year-old Tori […]
An attempted traffic stop yielded an unrelated arrest at just prior to 1 am on Saturday morning in the Sterling area, troopers reported on the trooper dispatch. When troopers attempted to pull over in a traffic stop on Robinson Loop in Sterling during the early morning hours, the vehicle, rather than pulling over, sped […]
A moose collision at mile 167 of the Sterling Highway sent a 25-year-old mother and two children to the hospital for evaluation early Monday morning, troopers report. 25-year-old Ashley Morey was traveling southbound on the Sterling Highway at just after 6 am on Monday morning when she encountered a moose that ran into the […]