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Mat-Su resolution would ask school board to start classes after Labor Day
Mat-Su Assembly will vote Tuesday on a resolution asking the school board to start classes the day after Labor Day instead of earlier in August.
by Walter AlaskaNews4h ago1 min read
Wasilla sets Oct. 12 hearing on airport master plan that recommends higher lease rates
Wasilla airport leases have cost 6 cents a square foot for decades. A new 20-year master plan says that should go up. The public hearing is Oct. 12.
by Walter AlaskaNews9h ago2 min read
MatCom adds two fire and EMS dispatch positions paid for by the Mat-Su Borough
MatCom gets two more fire and medical dispatch positions so a second dispatcher and call taker can be on duty around the clock. The borough pays.
by Walter AlaskaNews9h ago2 min read
Two council members and a former state senator run to replace term-limited Wasilla Mayor Glenda Ledford
Wasilla gets a new mayor this fall. Two council members and a former state senator are running, and if nobody tops 40%, it's back to the polls in November.
by Walter AlaskaNews18h ago2 min read
Sedan passenger seriously hurt in Knik Goose Bay Road crash in Wasilla
A sedan passenger was seriously injured in a two-vehicle crash Saturday night on Knik Goose Bay Road in Wasilla, a corridor with a fatal crash rate nearly four times the national average.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 28m ago1 min read
Troopers say 16-year-old shot and killed a family member near Slipper Lake in Sutton
Troopers say a 16-year-old shot and killed a family member near Slipper Lake in Sutton on Saturday, then drove to Seward and called 911. The teen is in custody.
by Walter AlaskaNews12h ago1 min read
Wasilla pot shop near Knik Charter School surrenders its state license
The Wasilla-area pot shop 530 feet from Knik Charter School lost in court and now has no state license. Its name has moved to a store on Spenard Road.
by Walter AlaskaNews1d ago2 min read
Palmer junk hauler cited for dumping over 500 pounds of trash on Mat-Su land
A junk removal business is supposed to take the junk to the dump. Troopers say a Palmer man's took 500-plus pounds of it to a Point MacKenzie railbed instead.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2d ago1 min read
Mat-Su Ballot Ties Home Tax Break to New 1% Sales Tax
Mat-Su voters get one box to check on a homeowner tax break and the borough's first areawide sales tax. It's a package deal, like cable used to be.
by Walter AlaskaNews4d ago2 min read
Houston commission recommends giving Holding District H landowners until March for fee-free zone changes
Houston landowners in the zoning holding district may get until the end of March to pick a new zone for free. The City Council still has to sign off.
by Walter AlaskaNews4d ago1 min read
Police are searching for two missing teenagers in Anchorage and Wasilla
Anchorage police are searching for two missing teenagers: Sparrow Kowatch, 16, missing since Sept. 19, and Jay Moriwaki, 13, last seen Wednesday night.
by Walter AlaskaNews4d ago1 min read
MEA lays out how rolling outages would work if Southcentral runs short of gas this winter
MEA's plan if the gas runs short: nine groups, 30 to 45 minutes dark apiece, turns every few hours. Step six of six, and the co-op hopes to never get there.
by Walter AlaskaNews3d ago3 min read
Hemp plant proposal asks Houston council for land and permitting help
A foundation wants a hemp processing plant near Houston to serve Alaska fiber growers. The state's hemp registry currently lists only retailers.
by Melinda Communities.News5d ago2 min read
The Alaska Court System awarded a $5.25 million contract to expand the Palmer Courthouse
The Legislature gave Palmer a fifth superior court judge this summer. The courthouse did not have room for the four judges it already had.
by Melinda Communities.News6d ago1 min read
Knik Tribe awarded $199,482 for Palmer fingerprinting site and mobile units
Fostering a child in Mat-Su can mean a long drive to get fingerprinted. Federal money is buying the Knik Tribe a station and two portable units.
by Maggie AlaskaNews6d ago2 min read
Wasilla commissioner asks if city should pause commercial development
A Wasilla commissioner floated halting commercial development over road funding. The chair noted commerce is what pays the city's share of road projects.
by Walter AlaskaNews6d ago2 min read
MEA surveys members on potential data center development
MEA is polling members about data centers while the state weighs handing 20,000 acres in its territory to AIDEA for a plan that lists data centers.
by Melinda Communities.Newsadded 5d ago2 min read
Mat-Su bans license plate readers before the borough owns any
Mat-Su banned borough use of license plate readers before owning any, with the sponsor calling himself a brick wall against Anchorage's surveillance push.
by Walter AlaskaNews6d ago4 min read
Wasilla group reports $93,850 in September spending for six Republican legislative candidates
A group funded entirely by a national Republican committee has spent $93,850 on six Alaska House races, including $50,800 to a Wyoming canvassing firm.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min read
Scammers posing as MEA are threatening Mat-Su members with shutoffs
Scammers posing as MEA are calling members, some with their account numbers, threatening to cut the power. MEA says hang up and call 907-761-9300.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 6d ago2 min read
Mat-Su asks AIDEA to build at Point MacKenzie, not on 20,000 acres near Houston
The state proposed giving AIDEA 885 acres at Port MacKenzie for free, one day after the borough voted to send AIDEA there instead of Houston.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago4 min read
Wasilla's road plan expired on a population forecast 38 percent too high
Wasilla's road plan expired, its parent comprehensive plan was repealed in 2011, and it assumed 3,700 more residents than the city actually has.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min read
A free crisis intervention course in Wasilla has 30 seats next month
Thirty free seats in a crisis intervention course in Wasilla next month, and Mat-Su officers and first responders get first crack at all of them.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min read
Mat-Su picks a pricier road route over its advisors and landowners
Mat-Su picked a $21–31 million road route over a $9–10 million one, against every advisory body and landowners who won't sell, on a vote that first failed.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min read
Mat-Su kept the Long Trail sign, and the $300,000 that came with it
Mat-Su took $300,000 and kept the trail sign some members worried would invite federal control. The borough's own attorney said it would not.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min read
A Big Lake man was killed in Houston. A 72-year-old faces murder charges.
A 43-year-old Big Lake man was shot and killed in Houston on Monday night. A 72-year-old Houston man was arrested on murder and assault charges.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min read
Mat-Su considers banning plate readers before it has them
Mat-Su votes Tuesday on banning license plate readers it doesn't own — the same night Anchorage debates regulating the ones it already has.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min read
A Wasilla workshop will walk job seekers through federal applications
State staff will help job seekers with federal applications Thursday in Wasilla — as Alaska's federal job market shrinks and resumes get capped at two pages.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min read
Wasilla council commits to planning a regional dispatch center outside city limits
Wasilla agreed to help plan moving its emergency dispatch center out of town. The reason for the hurry is a fire station going up on Bogard Road.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
Wasilla council pulls airport master plan from introduction, delays public hearing
Wasilla's council postponed but didn't drop a plan to nearly double its airport runway, from 3,700 feet toward 6,000, at an estimated $279 million.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
Troopers identify driver who left Ester street light crash
Alaska State Troopers identified a driver who knocked down a street light near Chena Ridge Road in Ester and left the scene without reporting the crash.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
State moves to permit an antimony ore crusher near Port MacKenzie
The state tentatively approved an air permit for an antimony ore crusher near Port MacKenzie, without publishing any estimate of what it would put into the air.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
Parents warn Mat-Su that cutting school nurses puts children at risk
Parents and staff told the Mat-Su school board that cutting nurses puts children at risk, as a Teeland Middle School nurse prepares to leave.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
Comment closes Monday on giving 20,000 Houston-area acres to AIDEA
Alaskans have until 5 p.m. Monday to comment on giving 20,000 acres north of Houston to a state agency for free — and only those who comment can appeal.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago3 min read
MEA is holding $451,000 in refunds for members it can't find
Matanuska Electric is sitting on more than $451,000 it owes members it can't find — one of them is owed about $15,000. Checking takes a phone call.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago1 min read
Three Mat-Su school roofs are failing, and the money may take years
Three Mat-Su school roofs are failing, and fixing them may take more than one budget cycle. The district's deferred repair backlog stands at $411 million.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago1 min read
Wasilla's parks commission backs a ball field expansion with no money behind it
Wasilla's parks commission endorsed a softball field expansion with no money behind it. The commissioner who moved to support it represents the softball league.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago1 min read
Downtown Wasilla would go one-way under an $83 million state program
Downtown Wasilla would go one-way under an $83 million state program. The construction contract is estimated at $50 million to $60 million.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
A new Wasilla group spent $43,000 on six House candidates with D.C. money
A Wasilla group registered Sept. 1, took $250,000 from a national Republican committee Sept. 9, and spent $43,000 on six House candidates Sept. 10.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
Comment closes Oct. 12 on a plan to dig antimony 80 miles from Trapper Creek and refine it at Port MacKenzie
Alaska is taking comment until Oct. 12 on permits for the Estelle gold and antimony project, whose applicant is a Nova Minerals subsidiary that won $43.4 million in federal defense funding to make military-grade antimony trisulfide.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read