The co-owner of a vehicle repair shop in Wasilla was sentenced today to three years’ probation and a $50,000 fine for intentionally altering emission control systems in at least 144 diesel trucks, violating the Clean Air Act.

Heavy overnight snowfall has prompted road closures along the Seward Highway due to a combination of hazardous road conditions and disabled vehicles.

Heavy snowfall overnight has led to power outages across the Kenai Peninsula, where as many as 3,700 homes have experienced a loss of power.

The Kenai Peninsula School District announced Thursday morning that all schools in the central and Eastern Peninsula areas will be closed today, November 9th, due to heavy snowfall and hazardous road conditions.

An intoxicated woman was arrested on Friday, Nov. 3, for criminal mischief, among other charges, for a disturbance she created at a local veterinary clinic.

Following the winter windstorm Tuesday night, more than 1,300 residents of the Kenai Peninsula were without power.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly to amend its meeting invocation policy despite public scrutiny at its meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 7.

A jury returned guilty verdicts on Monday, Nov. 6 in the case of State of Alaska v. Anthony Pisano.  Pisano, 49, was found guilty for the triple homicide that occurred in the Bullion Brothers store on Spenard Road in Anchorage on Sept. 12, 2017.

An Anchorage grand jury on Monday, Nov. 6, added felony counts and two additional corporate defendants in a criminal case involving “the MediCenter” – a trade name for a number of medical clinics that operated on the Kenai Peninsula between 2014 and 2019.

The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for Southcentral Alaska, including the Kenai Peninsula, Anchorage, and the Mat-Su Valley, predicting as much as a foot of snow in some places, blowing snow and wind with gusts up to 40 mph.