The case dated back more than a decade when Barton had access to children whose care was being provided by his mother through a licensed daycare operated from their Kenai home.

Alaska State Troopers responded to a disturbance in Moose Pass Thursday evening November 20, after receiving a report of an active altercation inside a residence.

The Soldotna-based Public Safety Communications Center recently took on additional E911 responsibilities under an agreement with the Alaska Department of Public Safety.

Darrel Williams was transported to Mat-Su Regional Medical Center, where he was later pronounced deceased.

The appointment drew attention because Pettey had previously sought election to the council and was not elected in the last two municipal elections.

Alaska State Troopers responded to reports of a dangerous driver on the Sterling Highway Saturday afternoon after receiving a REDDI complaint about a vehicle traveling erratically in the Ninilchik area.

The earthquake was 138.5 miles deep, and was 9 miles SW of Tyonek.

Storms that battered Alaska’s western coast this fall have brought renewed attention to low-lying Indigenous villages left increasingly vulnerable by climate change — and revived questions about their sustainability in a region being reshaped by frequent flooding, thawing permafrost and landscape-devouring erosion.

The KSRM News Department has compiled some of the week’s top headlines.

Permits are required and will be available at a self-serve station outside Refuge Headquarters on Ski Hill Road in Soldotna.