Dan and Cilla Suprak took their float tubes out on a Mat-Su Valley lake near Palmer this past week and caught more than a dozen holdover trout from last year. Dan mentioned that Cilla caught several larger fish up to about 15 inches, while those he caught were a bit smaller. It sounded like …
Fresh out of college, Mason Stansfield already had a pretty good idea of what he wanted to do next in life.
It’s getting to be that time of year. I was thinking about this topic and realized this seventeen-year-old column is as true today as when I originally wrote it. Rather than try to e…
Open water fishing started slowly last weekend, with only small patches of open water for anglers to try their luck, and only a couple launch sites for boaters. Conditions are changi…
Eight days ago I was ice fishing on Matanuska Lake with Chuck Ashmun and my wife. We probably pushed the ice fishing season more than most people. I had to drag my sled full of gear …
State park users in the Mat-Su will see more campgrounds and areas open for 2021 after the 2020 summer season made it difficult to book hosts and vendors, said Stuart Leidner, state …
A week ago, we still had close to two feet of snow and a lot of ice in the yard and on the driveways. Over the course of seven days, the snow is almost totally gone, most of the ice …
PALMER — The Mat-Su Borough Assembly unanimously passed Ordinance 21-035 which will allow for staff from community development and code compliance to fine people who do not pay daily…
WASILLA — Joann Utt, Vonnie Sweeney and several other retired women in the Palmer area banded together to form Valley Explorers, a laid back hiking group that gives them the chance t…
HATCHER PASS — For the first time in 17 days, the road in Hatcher Pass is clear and open to vehicles all the way up to Hatcher Pass lodge near the historic Independence Mine site. Fo…
A couple of weeks ago, when I was helping man the MSBFWC/KRSA outside table at the Outdoors Man’s show on Friday at Raven Hall, the wind was blowing and, even though the sun was out,…
Summer might seem like it’s still really far away as temperatures remain frigid across the Mat-Su. But any parent who has been met in May by “full” or “waitlist only” notices for cam…
HATCHER PASS — The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities cleanup of the Easter weekend avalanches in Hatcher Pass is still ongoing. The second road closure in Hat…
HATCHER PASS — The Hatcher Pass Avalanche Center has been producing two weekly forecasts all winter, and will post their final forecast on April 17. The penultimate forecast posted b…
HATCHER PASS — The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities will drop explosives from a helicopter on April 16 to clear the remaining dangerous snow on the slopes in…
HATCHER PASS — Hatcher Pass Road remains closed at mile 11 by the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities and will likely remain closed through the end of the week. Accord…
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