Palmer News

When Ping Lan put out a call for marketable new invention ideas last summer, the University of Alaska Fairbanks business professor expected to get 20 or 30 responses.

This is no way to celebrate your Playgirl pictorial! Levi Johnston 's mother, Sherry Johnson , was sentenced to three years in prison on Friday after pleading guilty to possession of OxyContin! Johnston was officially charged in a Palmer, AK courtroom with one count of possession with intent to deliver, holding a five-year prison sentence with two ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sarah Palin's book is highly anticipated in her home state - but she's no Harry Potter.

Some residents of British Columbia's northwest coast got a side of shaking with their breakfast Tuesday morning after a 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast.

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Pioneer Meadows is just west of Palmer on the north side of the Glenn Highway.A It is one of several neighborhoods in the Palmer area developed by Jess Hall of Hall Quality Homes.A Jess Hall has been building in Palmer since I have been in real estate and that is a long time.A I remember selling a Jess Hall home in 1991.A Pioneer Meadows was ...

A Palmer jury has acquitted Joseph O'Brien, 41, of criminally negligent homicide for killing a snowmachiner near Big Lake in 2003.

A This chart is from the Alaska MLS system .A It includes the data from all the members of the Alaska MLS.A A A The dark blue line are the sold listings .A Of course, that is the most important data on the chart.A I always think its interesting to watch the rise and fall of the sales.A You can see how it dips in the winter and rises in the summer.A ...

The Valley's borough and state political leaders met this week to try to make sure the Valley's top road, building and other projects get adequate funding in the state budget next year.

Anchorage Police Department officers stopped Leterry Benton, 19, of Palmer, for speeding on the Glenn Highway near the Eklutna exit Oct.

Authorities say a recent Internet prostitution sting called the biggest to date in the Mat-Su revealed a previously hidden world of men seeking cyber sex.

Gusty winds in the Mat-Su area have knocked out power to between 700 and 1,000 customers in the Matanuska Electric Association service territory, MEA spokeswoman Lorali Carter said this afternoon.

Anchorage's health department issued an advisory this afternoon that dust particulates in the air in Anchorage and Eagle River are approaching unhealthful levels as glacier silt blows in from the Valley.

Gurn Circle is a community in progress. The cul-de-sac just south of the Palmer-Wasilla Highway off Gurn Street was alive on a recent Saturday morning with the sounds of power tools, hammering and good-natured ribbing.

Ten men were arrested last week in a prostitution sting being called the first of its kind in the Mat-Su. The bust, made by the Palmer and Wasilla police departments with help from the FBI and Anchorage police, was part of a national push to find underage victims of prostitution or human trafficking.

Someone recently asked why they should buy a home in the Palmer-Wasilla area as opposed to Eagle River so I said: "OKlets take a look." Assume that you are driving 50 miles each way100 miles a day.

A juried exhibit at Madd Matters Gallery sufficiently roused our curiosity to make the drive to Palmer recently.

Saturday, 2 p.m. Alaska Rock Garden Society monthly meeting. Plants for your Troughs, presented by Florene Carney and Verna Pratt.

A budget shortfall has forced severe cuts in the Valley's bus system, reducing both trips and drivers, and stranding at home, at least temporarily, some people who have grown to rely on the buses.

Weeding between the rows of head lettuce is done by hand in a field in Palmer, Alaska.