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Unending Potential in the Mat-Su
“I think really, since the 1960s or even before that, it has just been growth, growth, growth, growth—with maybe a little lull in the ’80s,” says Matanuska-Susitna Borough Planning Director Alex Strawn. “Generally speaking, growth is all that we know out here in the Valley, and we have no indication that it’s going to slow down anytime soon.”
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Anchorage Assembly considers ordinance requiring it to post ‘land acknowledgement’ on the wall
Assemblywoman Meg Zaletel is offering an ordinance during Tuesday’s Anchorage Assembly meeting that will require the display of the “land acknowledgement” on the wall of the Assembly Chambers. Already, the Assembly has an ordinance that requires the oral recitation of a “land acknowledgement” statement that says that...
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Alaska Airlines Eagle Strike Raises Wildlife Concerns
The Anchorage Ted Stevens International Airport recently removed an eagle’s nest in the Sand Lake neighborhood. Carrie Olsen, the airport’s wildlife biologist, says the nest was inactive and posed a risk to air traffic. Specifically, it was located within two-thirds of a mile of the nearest runway. Olsen...
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‘A full room:’ Community remembers lost Iron Dog racer
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - A community of hundreds remembered one of their own Saturday at a memorial for Wasilla resident and Iron Dog racer Skye Rench. Rench was one of two who went missing in an ATV accident in early March, when the vehicle broke through the ice. A memorial was held at Teeland Middle School on Saturday, followed by a dinner at a local restaurant where family and friends reminisced about Rench’s life.
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Anchorage judge rules state’s brown-bear killings are unconstitutional
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s decision to kill almost 200 brown bears in order to boost a struggling caribou herd violated due process and was unconstitutional, an Anchorage Superior Court judge ruled Friday. Judge Andrew Guidi’s 10-page decision means at least a temporary end to the state’s controversial bear-killing program, which was intended […]