Cooper Landing News

The Chugach National Forest leadership has decided to reassign the focus and decrease the amount of time that their environmental educators spend on in-school educational programs in Seward, Moose Pass, Hope and Cooper Landing, to more general, on-the-road public education programs.

The National Weather Service issued a winter weather advisory for the western Kenai Peninsula north of Clam Gulch, including the cities of Kenai, Soldotna and Cooper Landing.

A blizzard warning is in effect along Kachemak Bay starting at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday until 9 a.m. Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service in Anchorage.

Hopes of touring the Last Frontier pervaded Donald Maeker's thoughts for many years.

An electrical lineman trying to restore power after one of the recent big windstorms fell into a ravine, suffered a serious chest injury and had to be medevacked by an Alaska Air National Guard crew, Alaska State Troopers said Monday.