For decades, the former Bartlett Earth Station and its large satellite dish stood at the end of Comsat Road. After years of relative abandonment, the property was sold, and the Cold War era dish removed, but a plan for new dishes on the site is in the works. KTNA’s Phillip Manning spoke with that project’s…

Talkeetna musher Anja Radano is taking her twenty-four hour rest in McGrath, and will then decide whether to continue running in this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The Anchorage Daily News reported on Wednesday that Radano fell into an ice hole while mushing through the infamous Dalzell Gorge. The Daily News reports that Anja…

On Tuesday, the Mat-Su Borough Assembly approved limited restrictions on outdoor burning in the Butte and delayed a decision on two additional full-time ambulances.   The bulk of public testimony during the meeting came during discussion of an ordinance aimed at limiting air quality violations. In recent years, one of the two air quality monitors…

An unidentified man was injured in a single-vehicle crash on the Talkeetna Spur Road on Saturday night. According to Alaska State Troopers, a 72-year-old driver struck the end of the Answer Creek guardrail in a Ford pickup while under the influence of alcohol. A fire rescue crew was able to remove the driver from the…

Talking about the weather has probably been one of the most common conversations between humans over the years. More recently, talking about climate has become a hot topic. Climatologist Brian Brettschneider has talked about climate with all walks of life. When asked about his conversations with various people, he says pilots are a unique source…

The 47th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is has begun. This year, the first musher out of the chute in Willow was Talkeetna’s Anja Radano. KTNA’s Katie Writer spoke with Anja in the hours between the ceremonial start in Anchorage and the official start in Willow Sunday afternoon.

Part one of the story of a hen who had a life-changing experience in the cold, and the start of her recuperation, with the hope of making a homemade chicken prosthetic using a computer program: Like a bird on the wing, the direction of my life changed swiftly on February eleventh. It wasn’t planned. But…

Talkeetna’s Anja Radano and her team will be the first to set off for Nome in the 2019 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. On Thursday, the fifty-two mushers competing in this year’s Iditarod drew bib numbers to determine the starting order for the ceremonial start tomorrow and the official restart on Sunday. Anja Radano drew…

A Willow man was killed in a head-on collision on the Parks Highway on Tuesday. Alaska State Troopers first received word of the crash just before noon on Monday. An ambulance happened to drive by the scene near Mile 63 and its crew began giving aid. Troopers say a Toyota Tundra pickup driven by 30-year-old…