07/13/11 Troupes of teddy-toting toddlers trampled to and fro Friday afternoon in Eagle River, their adult minders running raggedly behind. It was the Teddy Bear Picnic, and Eagle River's Bear Paw Festival was officially off to a roaring start.
07/13/11 Lauren Fritz's fifth-place finish in the July 4 Mount Marathon race in Seward was the best local finish in the 84th annual race, but it wasn't the fastest.
07/13/11 Alaska State Troopers on July 11 and July 12 reported a total of 34 new citations issued for violations in the Bristol Bay commercial salmon fishery. The list included 13 Alaskans and 21 non-residents.
07/12/11 New York - Toyota Motor Corp has announced the second set of winners for its 100 Cars for Good Program. Atlantic Toyota and Huntington Toyota shoppers may be interested to hear the next set of winners for Toyota's 100 Cars for Good program.
07/05/11 The Mat-Su community is overcome with grief after their beloved superintendent unexpectedly dies, following complications from a routine knee surgery.
07/05/11 Looking gritty in pink, Kikkan Randall and Holly Brooks staged one of the most stirring duels in Mount Marathon history Monday, running neck-and-neck almost the entire way in the 84th edition of Alaska's most famous footrace.
07/05/11 Legislators are enthusiastically considering the idea of the state financing and even owning a $7.5 billion pipeline to bring North Slope natural gas to Interior and Southcentral Alaska markets.
07/05/11 It's the first full week of July and the vegetables and markets keep coming. According to Sarah Bean from Arctic Organics and the Anchorage Farmers Market, "Things are rolling in from the field now that it's midsummer."
07/05/11 A helicopter pilot and two passengers walked away unhurt after crash landing late Monday south of McGrath, Alaska State Troopers said.
06/24/11 Washington (CNN) -- A secretly-produced, $1 million feature film titled, "The Undefeated," about Sarah Palin will debut in Iowa next week, a source confirms to CNN.
06/24/11 Documentary about Gov. Sarah Palin will be shown at 111-year-old historic Midwestern landmark
06/23/11 Last weekend brought great numbers of sockeye into the Kenai and Russian rivers. Fishing was great early in the week, but the numbers and concentration of sockeyes between Skilak Lake and the Russian River Ferry declined over the past two days.
06/23/11 WASILLA, Alaska - A 31-year-old Wasilla woman already on felony probation for driving under the influence was held without bail after she was found behind the wheel again. Shawn Rae Squires remain...
06/23/11 No matter how many more wins they earn this season, Eagle River's Post 28 American Legion baseball team already knows they'll emerge from the campaign with something perhaps more valuable than a league title.
06/17/11 COMMENTARY | The American Spectator blog, based on an interview with an unnamed Republican source, announced that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is expected to announce whether or not she will run for president by next week.
06/17/11 Pvt. Jeremy Morlock, a key figure in an Afghanistan war crimes case, sought then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's assistance in 2007 in obtaining a "compassionate reassignment" from Joint Base Lewis McChord to a post in Alaska, according to recently released email correspondence. Morlock had hoped to return home to assist his mother and sisters in the aftermath of his father's 2007 death in a boating ...
06/16/11 JUNEAU, Alaska -- Alaska officials on Friday released thousands of pages of Sarah Palin's emails from her first 21 months as governor, giving a fresh glimpse of her as she struggled with gossip about her family before she rose to national prominence as the GOP vice presidential nominee.
06/16/11 One thing Matt Montavon learned during the course of his 1,100-mile run across Alaska is that people are generally good. Though he did run into some dirty looks and comments about bums, Montavon was far more moved by shared stories, fruit and spare parts.
06/15/11 Nearly home after participating in the Alaska Women's Run, longtime Birchwood Loop resident Zona Dahlmann found her leisurely Saturday drive home interrupted by a string of bright orange signs.
06/15/11 Suddenly, the Eagle River baseball team has swagger. "They're starting to believe," said coach Greg Frost. Frost's comments came minutes after he got done shaking hands with an upbeat team that had just dropped an 8-1 loss to rival Chugiak. |