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PALMER – The Mat-Su Education Association and Mat-Su Borough School District announced a tentative agreement for the collective bargaining agreement for Mat-Su teachers. The tentative contract covers 2019-2021 with pay raises of two percent per year for teachers. After over…

MAT-SU — Elections are taking place at the local level as well as the national level this year. Seats are up for election on the Houston, Palmer and Wasilla City Councils as well as the Mat-Su Borough Assembly and the…

PALMER — A small group of Valley residents gathered on the steps of the Palmer Courthouse Wednesday evening for a candlelight vigil hours after news spread that a grand jury in Louisville, Kentucky, did not charge any of the three…

WASILLA — Thrive Mat-Su created a work group and started identifying locals needs at the beginning of the summer. They decided to highlight local youth voices by offering new activities and opportunities to meet their various interests this fall.

WASILLA — The Alaskan Salvation Army and districts across the nation are currently collecting donations for their annual holiday fundraiser, the biggest drive of the year that supports overall operations for the coming year.

PALMER — Colony High School’s marching band, The Northern Sound was joined by Wasilla High School, Palmer High School, and Redington Junior/Senior High School during Colony’s annual Marching Band Invitational Wednesday evening.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is looking into what officials described as “inaccuracies and falsehoods” in statements made by Pebble Partnership Ltd. executives and recorded by a Washington, D.C. environmental group whose representatives told Pebble they were potential investors.

The release of taped conversations between Pebble Ltd. Partnership, or PLP, executives and people posing as potential investors has caused the mining company’s President and CEO, Tom Collier, to resign. PLP issued a press released on Collier’s departure Wednesday. John…

Shell plans to resume its exploration in Alaskan Arctic offshore waters, according to exploration plans submitted to the state.

MAT-SU — The Mat-Su Borough School District announced two more positive cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday. Wasilla High School and Butte Elementary School both announced positives within their school buildings. Butte Elementary will remain closed on Wednesday and reopen on…

The executives of the Pebble Mine project are probably in the mea culpa mode right about now, down on their knees telling Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Sen. Dan Sullivan, Gov. Mike Dunleavy and the leaders of the Alaska Republican Party that…

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Tuesday they are looking into what officials described as “inaccuracies and falsehoods” in information provided to the corps by Pebble Partnership Ltd., or PLP, during the corps’ review of the company’s application for permits…

Conservation groups and Alaska Natives have ramped up their campaign to persuade major oil and gas companies not to bid in a lease sale planned for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by the Trump administration.

Three years since his release from prison, Talalelei ‘TJ’ Edwards keeps his regular appointments with his parole officer, is gainfully employed on the North Slope, and maintains strong ties to his community. There is no practical reason for Edwards to…

On their website, the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation has a stated mission: to make Anchorage the #1 City in America.

Updated Sept. 15 at 1:30 pm PT

When the 300-year-old red cedar log T.J. Young was recently carving was a seedling, a group of Haida people were making their first migration to Prince of Wales Island. The land around where Hydaburg now sits featured scattered villages behind…

It is clear with the outcome of the Alaska primary elections that there have been heavy losses sustained by those of us who value a rational approach to the state’s budget process. The winners of these primary races are from…

Update 9/9/20: According to CourtView, Erik Fritz Donhauser-Sagmoen has now been charged with Assault 2 - Injury with a Weapon Intent (Class B Felony) and Assault 3- Cause Injury with a Weapon (Class C Felony). Inexplicably, his bail has been…

In the first stop of her four-day tour in Alaska, Libertarian nominee for president Dr. Jo Jorgensen was visibly chilly at the Iditapark pavilion before taking the microphone for her speech to over 100 supporters on Sunday night.