Talkeetna News

Photo by Joshua Veldstra - Band members Sam Tenhoff, Haven Maltz Matthews, Collin McArthur, Tyler Langham and Tyler Figley came together in Portland to form the group "Animal Eyes," which performs 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday night at Alice's. Four band members grew up together in Homer, joined by Figley, who was raised in Talkeetna.

A 58-year-old Talkeetna pilot safety landed his airplane in a swamp when the engine failed.

Two mountain climbers from northern England who recently summited "Mount Denali" wrote home from Talkeetna to share news of their achievement -- and credit the hometown saveloy sausage and pies for building their climbing power.

Throughout the winter in Talkeetna, a group of kids gathers around the wreck of a Piper Cherokee Six plane.

The Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center has been called upon to care for a moose calf attacked by dogs.

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A Mount McKinley climber fell 1,100 feet to his or her death Friday afternoon while trying to recover a backpack that had started to slide downhill, the National Park Service said on Saturday.

May has finally arrived, and I'm thinking fondly of the summer ahead: staycations .

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With an App like AAA Trip Tik Mobile, you will be able to find a real gas station rather than one overgrown with sunflowers.

The 20th Annual Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival was broadly attended this year, attracting 1,900 people who registered.

Three lakes in Talkeetna have names that aren't really names - they're letters. Currently known as X, Y and Z lakes, the trio of water bodies have been an item of confusion, occasional derision, and frequent ambivalence since the day a map-maker identified each of them with just a single letter.

The Talkeetna Community Council held its May meeting Monday night at the Elementary School.