The Department of Public Safety has released the name of the trooper involved in a gunfire incident near Cooper Landing at mile 55 on Sunday. It was on Sunday that Trooper Kevin Gill responded to a report of a suspicious male standing along the roadside at mile 55 near Cooper Landing. He arrived on scene […]
Alaska State Trooper K-9 “Chevron” assisted in two drug arrests on Monday on the North Kenai Peninsula. “Chevron’s” is first assist came following a Bureau Highway Patrol South-Central Team traffic stop on a Subaru sedan near mile 111 of the sterling Highway near Kasilof. With “Chevron’s” assistance, troopers discovered that a passenger in the vehicle, 29-year-old Wasilla resident Candace McCloud, […]
The Funny River Fire on the Kenai Peninsula continued to grow on Sunday, now covering over 240 square miles on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. In response to the fire’s rapid growth near populated areas, the order went out during the late afternoon to begin evacuating areas threatened by the massive blaze. The campground at Lower Skilak […]
In a memorandum to Gary Folger, the Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety, dated May 22, 2014, Alaska’s Governor Sean Parnell directed to Department of Public Safety to pay the health insurance premiums for the survivors of DPS employees killed in the line of duty. The health insurance premiums will be paid for the […]