Knik News

Growing up in Alaska, I can remember the debate in the 1970s about the Parks Highway.

Knik Arm bridge planners are moving to take over ownership of Government Hill homes and businesses that stand in the right-of-way of the controversial mega project to link Anchorage and mostly undeveloped land in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.

The Mat Su Borough Assembly recently approved district reapportionment.A After each federal census and after the state is finished with their redistricting plan, the Assembly is required to propose a reapportionment plan for assembly districts.

Knik Arm Bridge planners moved the project forward Thursday, seeking a company to build the mega-bridge, even though the Municipality of Anchorage is suing and the Legislature hasn't provided the state money they need.

Ninilchik author George Harbeson Jr. signs his memoir, "Homesteaders in the Headlights: One family's journey from a Depression-era New Jersey farm to a new life in Wasilla, Alaska," from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday at the Pratt Museum.