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One of the two pilots of a vintage military plane that was delivering heating oil to a remote Alaska Native village reported a fire on board shortly before the aircraft crashed and burned outside ...
While Wasilla has an Alaska State Troopers presence, Wasilla falls under the jurisdiction of the Wasilla Police Department, founded in 1993, and employs 25 sworn officers. [37] Emergency services and fire protection are provided by the Matanuska-Susitna Borough under Central Mat-Su Fire Department. [38]
The Matanuska Valley Colony was returned on the 1940 U.S. Census as the Alaska Railroad Colony (unincorporated). It had a population of 789, which made it the then-12th largest community in the state of Alaska. This was the only time it was separately returned on census records.
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However, in 1985, the Alaska State Fair announced it would not renew the museum's lease when it ended in 1987. As a result, the museum changed its name to the Museum of Alaska Transportation & Industry and began searching for a new location. [8] In October 1990, it began moving to 10 acres (0.040 km 2) it purchased on Jacobsen Lake near Wasilla ...
Dec. 4—PALMER — A new class-action lawsuit against the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District and three employees contends the district illegally restrains and isolates disabled students in ...
The Miller’s Reach Fire, also known as the Big Lake Fire, was a wildfire that began on June 2, 1996 in an area around Miller’s Reach Road near Houston, Alaska, approximately 33 miles (53 km) north of Anchorage, Alaska. The fire burned over 37,000 acres (15,000 ha), destroyed at least 344 structures, [3] and caused more than $10 million in ...
A fire broke out on a boat in Seward Harbor, Alaska, on February 16, leaving one person dead, according to local media reports.Firefighters who responded to the blaze said that they had discovered ...