Troopers, APD to close Seward Highway

Alaska State Troopers and the Anchorage Police Department announced a planned closure of the Seward Highway at Beluga Point Friday evening for an “event.”
The closure is scheduled from 7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., according to a joint statement. Neither agency provided further details about the event itself.
In a phone interview, AST spokesman Tim DeSpain said the closure was unrelated to the recent incident in the same location: an armed man, identified as 36-year-old Kevin Thibodeau, alleg