WASILLA — Brandon and Amber Sumner opened Game Theory in August of 2018 with a vision to create a gathering place where everyone feels welcome. They wanted their game and card store …

We’re not so good with street names in Palmer. I think it is because we kinda know where we are and we don’t need “any darn street-sign or address” to tell us where we’re going. Inst…

WASILLA — The Valley Performing Arts Center is ready to unveil their local adaption of “An Enemy of the Public” Friday at 7 p.m.

It’s the great freeze. This is real winter—Alaska and Palmer is wearing the frozen mantle for at least two weeks. There are the clearest of skies and the coldest of temperatures. How…

It’s December’s first Friday at the Anchorage Museum, and I’m looking at the crowd lining up to buy/have autographed Julia O’Malley’s cookbook: ‘The Whale and the Cupcake’. O’Malley …

It just wouldn’t be the holiday season without a large-scale production of Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ and once again, it’s Juneau-based Perseverance Theater bringing the cl…

WASILLA —The annual Christmas Friendship Dinner is this Wednesday on Christmas Day and 550 volunteers are gearing up to feed and offer solace, prayers and human connection to over 5,…

PALMER — Megan and Nolan Garvin are nearly through their second season running their passion project, the Christmas Factory at the Alaska State Fairgrounds. With just a couple days l…

PALMER — The Mat-Su Concert Band is ready to hold their annual holiday concert series at the Glenn Massay Theater Friday and Saturday.

PALMER — Over 200 people ran through the Palmer wind that kicked up this weekend for the third annual Running of the Beers from Bleeding Heart Brewery’s location on Inner Springer Lo…

It was the best Winter parade ever! Floats, Santas, horses, fat bikes, dogs, runners, baton twirlers, dinosaurs, whales and musk oxen. And firetrucks, tractors, choirs, choruses, elv…

PALMER — The annual Parade of Lights through downtown Palmer is the pinnacle of Colony Days celebrations, drawing in hundreds of people from across the Valley to downtown Palmer. For…

PALMER — Colony Christmas is a longstanding tradition that brings people from across the Mat-Su Valley to the quaint downtown district in Palmer for a three-day holiday festival.

WASILLA —There are numerous holiday oriented events planned across the Mat-Su Valley this Christmas season.

PALMER — It’s the time of year again. The city of Palmer is priming up to bustle like the North Pole this weekend during the annual Colony Christmas celebration, hosted by the Greate…