Butte News

This home needs a lot of fix-up work, but will be perfect for the right person. Just think, you can customize it all you want! It's a 1,138 sq ft, 2 bed, 2 bath home.

Activities, prizes, raffle and food drive. The first annual scarecrow contest. $5 per person / $10 per family or free with a donation of three cans of food or a bag of veggies harvested from your garden.

You know it's coming. Maybe you've seen the first signs of snow in the mountains.

Brad and Margaret Subers are building an energy-efficient home in the Butte, featuring triple-pane windows and 8 inches of foam insulation on the walls.

Gregory Nilsson has been one of the most vocal opponents to ATV use in this area.

Gregory Nilsson has been one of the most vocal opponents to ATV use in this area.

Gregory Nilsson has been one of the most vocal opponents to ATV use in this area.

Food can be a funny thing. We eat because we must, but we don't always know what we're eating, why we're eating it or what minor miracles from nature or man made the food what is.

ERIK HILL / Anchorage Daily News / Bright sunshine greets yoga practitioners participating in the first "Yoga on the Butte" class sponsored by Blue Mountains Wellness Studio of Palmer May 23, 2009 on Bodenburg Butte.

Bill Weimar, once Alaska's halfway house king as the owner of Allvest Inc., has himself reported to a privately-owned, federal halfway house to finish serving his time on corruption charges.

Matanuska-Susitna Borough officials have scheduled a public forum in Palmer May 13 to take comments from the public on how to develop a management plan for eroding sections of the Matanuska River from Chickaloon to the lower Butte area.

A group of Butte residents are up in arms over a planned local shooting range. The range is among two included in the Knik River public use plan passed last fall after a two-year public process.

TALKEETNA RESIDENTS WITHOUT RUNNING WATER FACE DILEMMA : Things might get a little rank in downtown Talkeetna this month.