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On Tuesday, the Rasmuson Foundation announced that Talkeetna author Sarah Birdsall will receive one of this year’s Individual Artist Award grant. Birdsall is the recipient of one of twenty-five Project
Talkeetna resident Robin Song tells the story of her participation in this year’s Talkeetna-Trapper Creek Birdathon. It’s a remarkable thing, to me, that every Birdathon is different.
KSKA’s Ellen Lockyer provided portions of the audio and script for this piece. The Matanuska-Susitna Borough’s would-be ferry, MV Susitna, has suffered expensive damage, and now the Borough estimates repairs
Currently, there are 888 people registered to climb Denali. Of those, 208 are currently on the mountain. Nine climbs have been completed with one successful summit. That makes the current
While changes may be coming soon for the Talkeetna Solid Waste Transfer Site, the top borough official in the Public Works Department says the current plans do not include closure.
The National Park Service reports that the remains of a solo Argentinian climber have been found at a camp high on Denali. According to a statement on Thursday, the body
Cari Sayre continues the book The Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum.
On Wednesday afternoon, Talkeetna Elementary School received a threatening phone call while students were out of the building on a field trip. Joe Schmidt, School Safety Coordinator for Mat-Su schools,
The Media Skills class at Su Valley Junior-Senior High School produced podcasts which they uploaded to SoundCloud. KTNA airs one each Tuesday at 12:30.
