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MAT-SU — Though the Alaska state laboratory processed over 20,000 tests for COVID-19 last week, the Mat-Su Borough shattered it’s previous record for cases in a day partially due to a lag in data entry due to the large volume…

WASILLA — Juice Box Alaska has been busy since day one, according to owner Amber Thompson.

PALMER — In Palmer, local businesses are preparing for shoppers on Small Business Saturday. With the cancelation of indoor Colony Christmas festivities by the Palmer Chamber of Commerce, many businesses are offering their Small Business Saturday sales through the second…

PALMER — More than three weeks after election day on Nov. 3, Clayton ‘Mokie’ Tew was sworn in as the Mat-Su Borough Assemblyman for District 5 at a special meeting of the Borough Assembly on Friday.

WASILLA — Alaska Courts have remained open throughout the pandemic.

PALMER — The Palmer City Council heard hundreds of emails read into the record by City Clerk Norma Alley and Deputy Clerk Kara Johnson on Wednesday’s continuation of last week’s meeting on Ordinance 20-016 which would enact a mask mandate.

POINT MACKENZIE — After an inmate at Alaska’s largest prison tested positive for COVID-19 on Oct. 28, Goose Creek Correctional Center has seen the largest prison coronavirus outbreak in Alaska.

WASILLA — The Wasilla City Council met on Monday to select a new council member to serve out the rest of the late Mike Dryden’s term on Council Seat A. Dryden died in late August.

PALMER — With the certification of election results for the Mat-Su Borough last week, Ole Larson was not only reelected to continue serving the Mat-Su Borough School Board for his 13th year, but also elected president of the board.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied critical permit Nov. 25 for the proposed large copper/gold/molybdenum Pebble mine near Iliamna, 200 miles southwest of Anchorage. The agency’s action was taken, it said, after finding that the project plan for the…

Sunday night, the penultimate day before Emergency Order 16 brings a modified Hunker Down into effect across Anchorage, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Anne Zink reflected on the environment in Alaska hospitals and reiterated a plea to Alaskans to work together…

Every 10 years, the Anchorage Downtown Partnership is required by its bylaws to perform a self-auditing survey of its customers, who are the business owners of downtown Anchorage.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied critical permit Nov. 25 for the proposed large copper/gold/molybdenum Pebble mine near Iliamna, 200 miles southwest of Anchorage. The agency’s action was taken, it said, after finding that the project plan for the…

Today, Acting Mayor Austin Quinn-Davidson signed a modified Hunker Down order, Emergency Order EO-16, to halt the uncontrolled spread of COVID-19 in the Municipality of Anchorage (MOA) and to protect our public health systems, which serve the entire state of…

A special meeting of Alaska public health experts and Alaska native leaders was convened on November 23 to discuss the roiling jumble of COVID-19 issues in preparation for the vaccine’s December arrival. Here are the highlights of what they said.…

Newly minted opponents of the Pebble Mine project, Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, say the mine promoters must end the secrecy about their latest mitigation plan.

Alaska’s November general election delivered some surprises in legislative elections, and once again there is an almost evenly split state House and a state Senate grappling with deep divisions in a Republican majority.

A COVID-19 vaccine made by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford appears to prevent illness and may cut down on transmission of the coronavirus.

Mollie Boyer, founding member and former Executive Director of Valley Community Recycling Solutions died Sunday, Nov. 8, in her home after a year-and-a-half bout with cancer.