Talkeetna News

The Talkeetna Fire Department responded to a call on Monday evening when a shed on mile 6.5 of the Talkeetna Spur Road caught on fire and burned down.

The U.S. Census is searching for census takers, crew leaders and leader assistants in the Upper Susitna Valley.

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources , Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation , has initiated a planning process to create Denali State Park's first Trail Management Plan.

Mat-Su public health officials are gearing up to organize their first large-scale H1N1 vaccination clinics.

The fire that burned a home on I Street in East Talkeetna on Thursday left owner Bob Johnson homeless and five of his dogs dead.

In Tuesdaya TMs meeting, the Talkeetna Parks Advisory Committee passed a motion recommending that 90 acres of land recently transferred from the State of Alaska to the Mat-Su Borough be added to the borougha TMs Talkeetna Lakes Park.

FIREa ' Talkeetna fire fighters go back into a burned home on I Street to look for dogs that were trapped in the blaze on Thursday, Oct.

Alaska State Troopers are looking for a stolen vehicle in the Talkeetna area that may have played a part in an attempted home break-in. Troopers responded to a call on Monday morning at 10:15 a.m. when neighbors observed a young male between 20 and 30 years old trying to break into a house on C Street in downtown Talkeetna.

Investigators with Alaska Drug Enforcement and the Talkeetna Patrol broke a marijuana ring in Trapper Creek Tuesday.

On a quick air-taxi ride from Homer to Soldotna, I saw more of the southern Kenai Peninsula than most visitors do in two or three days.

The Jon Starheim grinning from his MySpace page is a ruggedly handsome 25-year-old with a gleam in his eyes, an Iraq war vet who loved camping and hiking, hanging out with friends and family, relaxing with a beer.

Oct. 6 -Mat Su Borough elections are today, as well as the Talkeetna Community Council election.

A A The Talkeetna Community Council has three new Directors for their Board. Meghaan A A Vaughan, the youngest director, took the most votes with 135 of 187 total voters casting A their ballot for her.

Link: KTNA A crew from the cable TV show "Man v. Food" rolled into Talkeetna over the weekend looking to sample local food specialties.

An Anchorage man who fell off the towering Hurricane Gulch Bridge Sunday fell nearly 300 feet yet survived initially, emergency officials said.

Below is information from each of the 4 candidates running for the 3 open seats on the Community Council Board of Directors.

Link: KTNA Talkeetna is already known as a unique Alaska town, and it's even more so now with the completion of what is surely the state's first permanently installed outdoor marimba.

Geri Denkewalter reads a poem in honor of the recent restoration of the bear that serves as a landmark for Talkeetna at the intersection of the Parks Highway and the Talkeetna Spur Road.

Wasilla Farmers Market, 11 a.m.- 6 p.m., through September, behind Wasilla Public Library.

School officials say that fewer students than projected enrolled at two of the areaa TMs schools.