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Wasilla, Houston: Valley cities sue to keep Anchorage from dropping Knik Arm Crossing.

A state judge heard arguments Friday from the mayors of two Mat-Su towns who want to block a decision to push the proposed Knik Arm crossing further back in Anchorage's transportation plan, and scheduled another hearing in mid-July. The mayors of Houston and Wasilla claim in a suit filed last week that the AMATS Policy Committee broke federal ...

The Anchorage Assembly has unanimously backed delaying construction of a bridge across Knik Arm from the city to Point MacKenzie in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.

Wednesday afternoon pleas to either keep or axe the bridge some still call a "bridge to nowhere," could be heard inside Assembly chambers.

The cities of Wasilla and Houston filed suit Tuesday seeking to stop a city-state transportation committee from considering a proposal to delay the Knik Arm crossing project.

A strong earthquake jolted Anchorage, Alaska, on Monday, sending people diving under desks and huddling in doorways but apparently causing no damage.

MARC LESTER / Anchorage Daily News / Robert Hall, owner of Gorilla Fireworks, displays pyrotechnics Thursday in Houston, the closest place to Anchorage where it is legal to buy them.

CONVICTED LAWMAKERS: Government expected to complete review of evidence by end of July.

Wasilla city residents who call to complain about a neighbor's barking dog could be greeted by a Wasilla police officer answering the call, after the City Council on Monday agreed to switch animal-care providers for at least the next three years.

A 24-year-old former Alaska resident has been charged with attempted murder in connection with a shooting last year in Houston, according to charging documents filed in state Superior Court in Palmer.

The Mat-Su Assembly adopted its 2010 budget last night. The spending plan includes a lower tax rate, although Assembly members cut the Mat-Su School District budget to get there.

The Anchorage Small Business Development Center offers "Basic Business Bookkeeping" from 6-9 p.m. at 430 W. Seventh Ave.

Wasilla Real Estate News statistics for the week of April 7-13, 2009. These statistics include the entire Matanuska-Susitna Borough including Wasilla, Palmer, Houston, Big Lake, Talkeetna, Willow, Sutton and regions beyond.

Big Lake resident Ron Johnson skated on a ticket for passing in a no-passing zone Thursday, but he left the Palmer Courthouse a little deflated.

Extensive collection of images of Alaska animals roaming the wilderness and, in many cases, our own backyard.

Alaska State Troopers say a traffic stop led to a marijuana bust north of Houston.

Conoco Phillips today began notifying Alaska employees to be laid off as the company tightens spending in response to the steep decline from last year's record oil prices.

In the little city of Houston, Mayor Roger Purcell is top dog -- and by city code, chief law enforcement officer.

A company run by a Wasilla man is going some 300 miles north to open the state's first large-scale wood pellet plant near Fairbanks.

The global economic crisis has dashed demand for natural gas, dimming chances for an Alaska gas pipeline, a top market analyst said Friday.