Chickaloon News

Convicted of murder and tampering with physical evidence in March, former Eagle River resident Frank Adams was sentenced Friday to 102 years for killing Stacey Johnston of Chugiak.

Taxes on overnight stays collected by the borough will pay for improvements at two popular parks on the east and west ends of the Mat-Su, and to put portable restrooms at a handful of frequent stopping spots that now offer only trees and bushes for cover.

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.

As hundreds from all over Alaska filled a Dena'ina Center stimulus seminar Tuesday, many thought they would leave with grant money.

A Palmer jury heard opening arguments in the murder trial of a man found with the body of his girlfriend in the back of his car.

Frank Adams stands accused of beating girlfriend Stacey Johnston to death in July 2007, putting her body in the back of his red hatchback, and fleeing from police until spike strips stopped him at Peters Creek.

Nancy Taylor yanked open the front door one morning last June to holler at the goats she heard tromping on the porch.