Lakes News

In a cautionary twist on the usual car versus moose encounter, an Alaska State Trooper hit a black bear on the Parks Highway late last month.

New restrooms are going in at state parks around Alaska. They look like wood and stone but are prefabricated concrete buildings meant to withstand abuse.

The pilot and passenger of a small, home-built airplane are dead after it crashed Tuesday morning and went up in flames just west of Wasilla.

JUNEAU, ALASKA Fish as well as people are expected to benefit from another round of federal stimulus funding that's headed to Alaska.

It's unfinished. Lot 1 Block 1 Irish Setter Circle $35,000 This is a .92 acre vacant lot out in Wasilla, Meadow Lakes area.

SENATORS: SEE ALASKA SHRINK ON YOUR SUMMER BREAK : Summer tourists are lured to Alaska by the midnight sun, abundant wildlife and world-class sport fishing.

Taxes on overnight stays collected by the borough will pay for improvements at two popular parks on the east and west ends of the Mat-Su, and to put portable restrooms at a handful of frequent stopping spots that now offer only trees and bushes for cover.

RINDI WHITE / Anchorage Daily News / Meadow Lakes Seniors Inc. board members Liz Hawkins and Toni Kleewein stand at the entry to Birch Creek Villas on Monday.