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In mid-March, expert K9 trainers from Washington State traveled North to Alaska to provide world-class training to Alaska search and rescue dogs during the annual Mel Nading Memorial K9 Avalanche Rescue Workshop. The annual workshop put on by MAT+SAR, a volunteer search and rescue organization in the Mat-Su Valley, honors Alaska Department of Public Safety Pilot Mel Nading who was tragically killed in the line of duty in a helicopter crash in 2013.
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Fourth-of-July DUI High Visibility Enforcement Campaign Results Are In

July 16, 2021 (Statewide) – The Annual National Anti-DUI campaign Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over High Visibility Enforcement Effort statistics are in. Additional Troopers were patrolling... Read More

Troopers Increase Patrols for July Fourth Weekend

July 1, 2021, (STATEWIDE) – Troopers will have increased high-visibility patrols on Alaska’s highways this Fourth of July holiday in an effort to prevent fatal and serious-injury... Read More

Alaska Case Selected for National Financial Crimes Award

June 29, 2021 (ANCHORAGE, AK) – Last week, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced that the Alaska State Troopers were one of the recipients of the 2021 FinCEN Director... Read More

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