Alaska State troopers say that they opened a preliminary investigation and initiated a search after receiving a request for a welfare check from a 56-year-old Willow resident’s employer at 9:15 AM on Monday morning after she failed to show up for work. Troopers responded to the home of Hattie Labuff-Kilgo in Willow, but had no success in […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska— The Trump administration Tuesday took a major step toward opening Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve — the largest roadless area in the United States — to new, industrial-scale oil development. The project threatens polar bears, caribou and migratory birds that live and travel through the ecologically rich reserve. The Bureau of Land Management announced it would prepare […]
Alaska State Troopers arrested a Chugiak man on several charges and a federal warrant after a high-speed vehicle and foot chase early Saturday morning AST reported on the trooper dispatch. When troopers attempted to perform a traffic stop on a silver 2004 Ford pickup for an equipment violation near mile 55 of the Parks Highway at 3:37 […]
New details released by Alaska State Troopers have identified the pilot that died in the Willow crash on Wednesday and released additional details into the crash. Troopers have released the name of the pilot as that of 24-year-old Colt Richter. Richter was piloting a Beaver for Regal Air when he went down shortly after takeoff […]