Palmer News

By Yereth Rosen Anchorage, Alaska - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's 18-year-old daughter Bristol, whose pregnancy briefly became a side issue in the presidential campaign, has given birth to a son, People magazine reported on Monday.

FORWARD OPERATING BASE WARRIOR, KIRKUK, IRAQ a ' The city of Taza in Kirkuk province, Iraq, continued its recovery efforts after a devastating truck bomb attack June.

What happens after a flush is a topic most people don't spend much time thinking about.

Police are on the lookout for a rogue motorcyclist on a speedy yellow machine spotted zipping down city streets in recent months at speeds exceeding 100 mph and, on occasion, leaving pursuing officers in the distance.

The greens at the grocery store are about to get a whole lot greener. Crews worked Monday to harvest the first crop from Gold Nugget Farms off Bodenburg Loop.

Stroll into the Capstone Family Medicine at the new Mat-Su Regional Medical Center on Snowmobile Drive, and you'll notice something a little different.

City businesses and residents opposed to turning two streets in Palmer into a one-way traffic loop may have succeeded in sending the project back to the drawing board.

A search is under way for a California pilot and passenger bound from Alaska to Canada.

He survived a machete attack and even saved one woman's life, but Bear, the 160-pound mastiff-mix, cited as a hero by a national organization, couldn't beat cancer.

A Bohemian, mostly under-30 crowd filled the hole-in-the-wall Laurelthirst Public House on a recent Sunday night.

A handful of Wasilla residents who would be the closest neighbors to a city-proposed shooting range near the Menard Sports Center are mounting a protest against the range.

Her mother says it wasn't what she was fishing for, but Tegan Humphrey, 6, won the Homer Jackpot Halibut Derby with a 138.8-pound catch.

STEPHANIE KOMARNITSKY / Anchorage Daily News / At age 81, Verna Euwer is closing her Children's House preschool and day care after 45 years of operation in Palmer.

Taxes on overnight stays collected by the borough will pay for improvements at two popular parks on the east and west ends of the Mat-Su, and to put portable restrooms at a handful of frequent stopping spots that now offer only trees and bushes for cover.

Academy Charter, one of about a half-dozen charter schools in the Mat-Su, is looking to expand its land base by having the borough buy 20 acres adjoining its site in Palmer.

Senior Master Sgt. Gary Lytle, 506th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron electrical systems superintendent, places a fluorescent light bulb into a fixture he repaired inside the Sultan Saqi Shrine.

ERIK HILL / Anchorage Daily News / Bright sunshine greets yoga practitioners participating in the first "Yoga on the Butte" class sponsored by Blue Mountains Wellness Studio of Palmer May 23, 2009 on Bodenburg Butte.

In brief: Hot licks Published: June 2nd, 2009 06:38 PM Last Modified: June 2nd, 2009 06:39 PM Learn to cook Allen & Peterson offers Viking Cooking School classes weekly in Anchorage.

Last week Market Fresh reported a new addition to the fare at the Anchorage Farmers Market, Homer's Northern Lights Oyster Co., with fresh frozen cod and halibut in addition to the shellfish.

Wasilla and Palmer real estate statistics for May 26-June 1, 2009. These statistics show the average and median sales prices for single family homes in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.