Here’s a chance to either walk off all those second helpings from Thanksgiving dinner or to make room for the upcoming holidays. Every Tuesday and Thursday at 7:30 p.m. residents may use the hallways at Tri-Valley School for Hall Walking or Running.
A combination of immediate and long-term growth on Fort Wainwright Army Post has Army officials pushing for more housing in the community and borough officials promising the needs will be met.
Gov.-elect Sarah Palin started filling jobs Tuesday, choosing Anchorage's former police chief to run the state troopers and selecting the head of a state prison farm in the Valley to guide the Department of Corrections.
Almost every day from now until Dec. 5 will bring more homecomings at Fort Wainwright as the rest of the 3,800-person brigade returns -- a couple hundred troops at a time -- from a 16-month deployment.
His challenger wasn't well known. He had easily stomped every challenger since 1992. He ran a low-key campaign. Yet U.S. Rep. Don Young spent more than $1.6 million on this year's re-election.
Two men in Mat-Su Valley have converted their diesel engine cars and trucks from running on gasoline to vegetable oil – the same kind used to fry potatoes and halibut. Both men say the change has saved them money and also helps save the environment.
While other people gathered around the dining room table Thursday for a Thanksgiving meal with family, friends and a little of mom’s homemade pumpkin pie a la mode, the holiday was a little different for the 35 athletes gathered at the Birch Hill Lodge.
Alaska State Troopers stopped Dale near Delta Junction at South Clearwater Road and the Alaska Highway for inoperable tail lights, a trooper report stated.
