Susitna News

One film made, one film festival victory. One hundred percent success is the sort of record even the most acclaimed movie directors would love -- and one that Anchorage videographer Carl Batrell now owns after his 26-minute documentary on winter riding in Alaska, "Fat Bikes," won first place at the Boston Bike Film Festival last month.

The Susitna Community Council is holding board of director elections next week during their regular council meeting on Thursday, November 5 at the Senior Center/ Su Valley High School .

Things are slow? Don't tell that to the Mat-Su Borough. A gradual slowdown of Alaska's economy is affecting the sprawling Matanuska-Susitna Borough along with the rest of the state, but the borough government is hustling a string of projects that is taking some of the sting out of the slowdown and laying a foundation of long-needed regional ...

Bill Diehl takes off from impromptu airstrip Knik-Goose Bay Road Thursday afternoon while Wasilla police block traffic.

State Sen. Joe Thomas says the analysis should be ready next spring on the proposal to dam the Susitna River to generate electricity.

Host Holly Stinson visits with Eleanor Trepte Martin, who arrived in Alaska as a six- year-old in 1927.

Mat-Su College organic gardening class members and volunteers harvested potatoes in the rain last week.

Students at Burchell High School earn more credits by attending classes after the regular school day ends.

The Clipper Grace, a bulk carrier vessel from Nanjing, China, lays alongside the berth at Port MacKenzie in Mat-Su Sept.

The discovery of human remains by an excavator has halted construction of a warehouse next to the Knik Museum.

Valley Community for Recycling Solutions broke ground on a long-awaited recycling center near Palmer Sept.

Alaskans have talked about a road to Nome for decades and now state transportation planners are taking a new look, with updated information.

The poor national economy this summer boosted the use of Matanuska-Susitna state parks but took a toll on everyone else in the local tourist business.

Trunk Road is being rerouted to eliminate many of the curves in the road. The new route includes the cut near the experimental farm near the intersection with the Parks Highway.

A group from Access Alaska, from left, Judy Goodman, Gerry Milbrett, Debra Pollard, and Jim Beck took a tour of the Alaska State Fair grounds in Palmer on Tuesday, August 25, 2009, to check on vendors' progress in complying with federal laws that require handicap access at the fair.

New restrooms are going in at state parks around Alaska. They look like wood and stone but are prefabricated concrete buildings meant to withstand abuse.

Houston Mayor Roger Purcell and Fire Chief Tom Hood stand in front of a new piece of heavy-duty firefighting equipment the city bought from the Anchorage Fire Department.

Wasilla city temporary employee Jamie Weddell helped install the new exhibit at Wasilla's Dorothy G. Page Museum.

After a welcome home ceremony for the Alaska Army National Guard's Embedded Transition Team, Master Sgt.

Brad and Margaret Subers are building an energy-efficient home in the Butte, featuring triple-pane windows and 8 inches of foam insulation on the walls.