Big Lake News

Jurnee Lowe of Anchorage was sitting in front of her 21-year-old brother as he drove Sunday.

An 8-year-old girl was medevacked to Mat-Su Regional Hospital for treatment after she sustained injuries in a head-on snowmachine crash on Big Lake, according to Alaska State Troopers.

A Palmer man died Sunday after the SUV he was driving skidded off a Big Lake road, Alaska State Troopers said.

Members of the public interested in advising Alaska State Park managers on issues relating to state parks in the Mat-Su and Copper River Basin area are invited to apply for membership to the Mat-Su State Park Citizens' Advisory Board.

These statistics are for all the residential single family homes in the Mat-Su Borough.

In a cautionary twist on the usual car versus moose encounter, an Alaska State Trooper hit a black bear on the Parks Highway late last month.

A Palmer jury has acquitted Joseph O'Brien, 41, of criminally negligent homicide for killing a snowmachiner near Big Lake in 2003.

A Shell gas-to-liquids plant in Malaysia makes petrochemical feedstock and ultra-clean diesel.

Today at 7 p.m. The ins & outs of Flower Arranging presented by Camille Williams at the Anchorage Garden Club monthly meeting at the Pioneer School House basement, corner of Third Avenue and Eagle Street.

An audit has been ordered of the state-funded Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority.

The poor national economy this summer boosted the use of Matanuska-Susitna state parks but took a toll on everyone else in the local tourist business.

State parks around the Mat-Su Valley are getting new restrooms designed to last for years.

The Division of Mining, Land and Water is offering a 9.20 acre parcel of state land and nine structures for sale at public outcry auction to the highest qualified bidder.

The Division of Mining, Land and Water is offering a 9.20 acre parcel of state land and nine structures for sale at public outcry auction to the highest qualified bidder.

The Division of Mining, Land and Water is offering a 9.20 acre parcel of state land and nine structures for sale at public outcry auction to the highest qualified bidder.

The Division of Mining, Land and Water is offering a 9.20 acre parcel of state land and nine structures for sale at public outcry auction to the highest qualified bidder.

Friday Fling in Palmer near the old railroad depot, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Vendors, farmer's market, music, food.

More than a thousand people showed up Friday for Gov. Sarah Palin's annual picnic held in her hometown of Wasilla.

Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell is asking Alaska's attorney general to recommend ways to stop people from leaking confidential information in ethics investigations.

This week a "Volume 1, No.1" copy of the Alaska Star, then called the Chugiak-Eagle River Star, walked into our office.