Palmer News

He left behind a wife and 3 grown children. Gatto was memorialized as a family man first, and a state representative second.

A 16-year-old Palmer girl died after a dump truck slammed into the driver's side of the sedan she was driving across the Old Glenn Highway on Wednesday, Alaska State Troopers said.

The Division of Agriculture encourages the public to provide nominations for the 13th Annual Farm Family of the Year Award.

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mining, Land and Water, in cooperation with the Division of Agriculture, will be holding a sale of agricultural land by sealed-bid auction.

The House Majority caucus, in a news release, announced the service would take place May 19 at the Lazy Mountain Bible Church in Palmer.

The Division of Agriculture encourages the public to provide nominations for the 13th Annual Farm Family of the Year Award.

More than 400 students at Swanson Elementary School in Palmer and 260 students in the Fairbanks region are learning about Alaska agriculture this week as part of Alaska Agriculture Day.

A lawsuit filed in federal court says an Alaska coal mining company is preparing to dig at a Matanuska-Susitna prospect without valid permits.