On Tuesday, Alaska State Troopers reported the death of a 66-year-old Healy man who had gone out on a wood cutting expedition on Friday afternoon and never returned. AST received a report at approximately 1 AM on Saturday morning reporting that Beryl James Palmer of Healy, ” was overdue from retrieving firewood near his residence.” […]
(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 […]
An Anchor Point teen was transported to the Homer Hospital for treatment of injuries after her vehicle left the roadway at mile 167 of the Sterling Highway, and collided with a tree. 18-year-old Talena Kinder told troopers that she lost control of her vehicle when she “panicked after seeing several bees in the vehicle,” the trooper […]
On Tuesday afternoon, at 1:30 pm, according to the trooper dispatch, the troopers in Ketchikan received a report of a fatal accident at a logging company on the Cleveland Peninsula near the town. Troopers flew to the scene with the assistance of a Temsco Helicopter chopper and conducted an investigation at the area where the […]