Butte News

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.

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A Kona, Hawaii, man who fled his sunny home state to escape an arrest warrant is cooling his heels in a Palmer jail after a savvy police detective found him in the Butte.

New rules for the Knik River such as a shooting ban around Jim Creek got plenty of attention at public meetings earlier this month.

FRAN DURNER / Anchorage Daily News / Kim Swinburne, a student helper at the UAF farm in the Butte, unbags examples of potatoes being tested during a February 2009 Potato Growers Conference in Palmer.

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mining, Land & Water, will hold public meetings in Butte, Wasilla and Anchorage.

Fred Meyer and Safeway stores are recalling products that contain peanut butter.

Imagine my surprise and dismay at coming upon a large patch of butter-and-eggs on the beach berm just north of the Endicott River.

A family of six lost their home in a fire Monday afternoon. Raging winds and a bitter cold made fighting the blaze off Farm Loop Road even more difficult than usual for about 25 firefighters and emergency ...

More than 40 of the 100-plus dogs found malnourished and covered in feces in a broken-down school bus at a Rocker truck stop in early October have found foster homes in the Butte area.