Sutton News

I took a trip up the Glenn Highway to look at a ten acre lot near the Matanuska Glacier.

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

Who says you need snow to race dogs? The Alaska Skijoring & Pulk Association second annual Dryland Race is Saturday at the Chena Lakes flood plain.

The Glenn Highway reopened to one lane of traffic late this afternoon following a single-vehicle accident in the morning that shut it down for about six hours, according to Alaska State Troopers.

An abandoned mine shaft staring out from a cliff near the McDonald Spit across Kachemak Bay contains its own story about chromite; a time when America needed it and Alaska happened to have it.

ERIK HILL / Anchorage Daily News / Outbuildings are surrounded by flowing water as the Matanuska River surges into the woods behind properties along the Glenn Highway on July 9, 2009, outside Sutton.

Photos by ERIK HILL / Anchorage Daily News / Warm temperatures and glacial melt have led the surging Matanuska River to scour away shoreline to within a few yards of the Glenn Highway at Mile 63.

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.