Healy News

Each fall, beginning in the early 1970s -- decades before the actions of Christopher McCandless made a gravel road in central Alaska the setting of a bestselling book and movie -- Tom Osterkamp was driving the Stampede Trail near Healy to reach his favorite moose-hunting areas.

On May 12, the Homer Electric Association board of directors sent a clear message to the Golden Valley Electric Association: Healy 2 is a bad deal and we don't want any part of it.

The 19th Annual Winners Recital by singers receiving scholarships from the Anchorage Concert Chorus took place Saturday night at the UAA Arts Building Recital Hall.

Homer Electric Association has voted to back out of a plan to restart the mothballed 50-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Healy, and is now looking at wind energy, hydropower and natural gas options to fill its needs, board president Deborah Debham said May 14.

Homer Electric Association members have spoken and the board of directors has listened.

Yukon Tanana Area Plan Public Scoping Meetings in Cantwell, Healy, and Tanana Rescheduled and Comment Period Extended - The Department of Natural Resources initiated the development of the Yukon Tanana Area Plan in the fall of 2008.

The Homer Electric Association is backing away from its previous agreement to help start up the troubled Healy Clean Coal Plant.

A traffic stop near Healy turned into a drug and contraband arrest. Alaska State Troopers on Sunday stopped a sport utility vehicle at Mile 269 Parks Highway and charged 52-year-old Gerardo Anthony Solorzano of San Diego with driving with a revoked California driver's license.

A bill introduced in the Alaska Legislature Monday would create an Energy Department, which would combine two existing state agencies that oversee electric and natural gas projects in the state.

Twenty-two teens from various Alaska communities will converge in Juneau this week to learn about state government, key conservation issues and how to use their voices to make a difference.

Despite a dismal world economy, Alaska's five large producing mines say they will remain operating and have mostly avoided layoffs.

Homer Electric Association appears to be going down a path that is contrary to the wishes of the membership in regards to electricity production.

In a Feb. 14 story about the Healy coal-fired power plant, The Associated Press misstated the expected cost of bringing the plant online.

In her State of the State speech, Gov. Palin floated an idea that would improve the energy situation in the Railbelt.

Gov. Sarah Palin's goal for Alaska to receive 50 percent of its electricity from renewable energy by 2025 is reviving long-held dreams of the state building a giant hydro project like the Susitna dam.

The Alaska Permanent Fund is supposed to be a place for the state to invest its money prudently -- not a development fund for questionable projects.

The Healy "clean" coal plant is one of state government's biggest economic development boondoggles, so it's tempting to cheer the news that the state might actually get $50 million for the long-mothballed ...

A mysterious object in the sky that rattled Tok and perked ears with a sonic boom-type sound Dec.

Fairbanks Economic Development Corp. officials continue to wade through a 179-page conceptual study released in November for a large-scale project that would produce synthetic diesel, jet fuel and electric ...