Moose Creek News

Many Anchorage drivers headed for ditches today as blowing snow on the roads combined with regular ice, black ice, glazed spots and other hazards.

Tammie Wilson's campaign manager said the assemblywoman is probably too far behind Luke Hopkins to win the borough mayor's race.

FAIRBANKS a ' Last summera TMs forest fires might be out, but crews are working on four prescribed burns in the area as part of an effort to keep future fires at a minimum.

Submitted photo: Jake Webber, Robert Cochrane and Edna Agar at Moose Creek on the Edson Trail in 1913.

Submitted photo: Jake Webber, Robert Cochrane and Edna Agar at Moose Creek on the Edson Trail in 1913.

" Shirley After a brief illness at the Cornwall Community Hospital, McConnell Site, on Tuesday, Aug.

" Shirley After a brief illness at the Cornwall Community Hospital, McConnell Site, on Tuesday, Aug.

FAIRBANKS a ' A Salcha man is accused of trying to burn down a mana TMs house in retaliation for the homeowner striking his brother with a baseball bat in what Alaska State Troopers called an act of self-defense. Silfiano Lukas, 27, has been charged with attempted arson, a class B felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

Anyone who wants to check out the salmon counting operation in the Chena River at Moose Creek Dam is free to do so.

The first king salmon of the season were caught by subsistence fishermen in Nenana on Tuesday, which means some kings should be poking their noses into Chena and Salcha soon.

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.