Moonshine isn’t dead — and neither are the whisky police.

Agents of Virginia’s Alcoholic Beverage Control busted a 63-year-old Danville ranch owner and confiscated his wares: 339 one-gallon jugs of homemade booze, packaged like milk containers and ready to be sold.

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Well, the sign did say “Drive Thru,” didn’t it?

A 17-year-old Billings, Mont., driver was cited for careless driving after her Chrysler Intrepid plowed through a cinderblock wall and knocked over a sign with those words at an adjacent drive-in shop Tuesday evening.

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Call it baked Alaska.

The nation’s 49th state has been hit with a heat wave so severe that state health officials took the unusual step of posting a Facebook message reminding people to use plenty of sunscreen.

The tiny town of Talkeetna, reputedly the inspiration for the TV series “Northen Exposure,” had a high of 96 degrees this week — close to an all-time Alaska record.

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North Korea is vowing to kill the authors of an online story reporting that dictator Kim Jong-un gave copies of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Hampf” to Kim’s top officials as a leadership guide.

The report in New Focus International, a news portal run by North Korean defectors, was picked up by all major South Korean newspapers yesterday.

But the North’s police agency called the report a “thrice-cursed crime” and threatened to kill the “human scum” behind it.

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Fed up with politicians they call “rats,” a group in the eastern Mexican city of Xalapa have put forward their ideal candidate for mayor: a cat named Morris.

Xalapa resident Sergio Chamorro, who adopted the cat in August, said the plan began as a joke borne out of frustration with the Veracruz state government over free speech.