DOT Reopens Chitina Highway Station After Shutting Down 4 Years Ago During Budget Cuts

Station Opened Monday After Closing In October, 2016 Using Special Federal Highway CARES Funds  Snowplow on an Alaskan road. (Photo, Alaska ...

Ahtna Elder Roy Tansy, Born At Historic Valdez Creek On The Denali Highway, Passes Away January 10th

Devoted To A Life Of Service & To His Beloved Wife, Irene  Irene & Roy Tansy at a Chistochina potlatch. (Photo, Doyle Traw) Ahtna El...

Dimond Center Says No You Don't – Protestors With Guns Won't Be Allowed To Gather There This Sunday

Anchorage Shopping Mall Listed As Location Of Armed Rally: Dimond Center Responds That They're Having None Of It   Dimond Center & P...

Tazlina Trading Post Planning To Rebuild After Major Fire

  (Photo, Glenn Rich Fire Department ) "Everybody Got Out. Nobody Was Hurt" The owners of the Tazlina River Trading Post, which bu...

Get Immunized Against COVID If You're 65+ Years Old. Call CRNA At 822-5241 For Information Now

NOTICE The State Of Alaska Says Residents 65 And Over Next In Line For Shots  Why This Is Important:  People 65 and over are now going to fi...

Copper Basin 300 Sled Dog Race: 2021 Results

Copper Basin 300 musher (Journal file photo) Race Finishers From CB 300 Web Site  Nicolas Petit won the race on Monday, January 11th. Joar U...

State Of Alaska Information On Who Gets COVID-19 Vaccine: December 29th

Online Scheduling for COVID-19 Vaccine Appointments Open to Tier 3 Health Care Workers Beginning December 30, 2020  WHO IS ELIGIBLE? Health ...

At The End Of A Very Long Year, A Hopeful Diary Entry From The 1898 Gold Rush

Lessons On Finding Joy As New Year Comes To The Copper Valley  On December 30th in the winter of 1898-1899, gold miners who were hunkered do...

"Go Fund Me" Sites Started For Kendra's Kreations & Casa De La Arte Bring In Thousands Of Dollars

 Two Go Fund Me Sites Begun For Local Businesses That Burned Down In Tazlina By February 1st, 2021  Donors Had Pledged $11,999 To Naomi.  71...

Another Semi Dumps Its Freight On The Glenn – And This Time There's A Christmas Story Ending

It's A Miracle! 20 Tons Of Fresh Food Saved Christmas For Bean's Cafe When Truck Hit The Ditch At Chickaloon  Headed into Anchorage...

Steven John Of Mentasta Recalls Christmas: Stories All Night Long

When It Was Christmas...They Had A Party For Two Or Three Days And You Might Get A Pair Of Canvas Gloves Practical, homemade functional foot...

Copper Valley Medical Workers, First Responders Get Moderna Vaccine: December 22nd

CRNA Says COVID-19 Vaccine Given To Copper Valley Frontline Workers  Covid shot at CRNA December 22nd. (CRNA video) Regional "Frontline...

Gakona Fire Chief Describes Answering Call To Tazlina Fire

 Community Service Taken To New Heights Challenges Of Trying To Save Buildings In Rural Alaska With Huge Distance & Water Issues Gakona ...

Tazlina Trading Post & Outbuildings Burn To The Ground In A Cold Alaskan December

Tragic Christmas Fire Wipes Out Important Landmark, Other Local Businesses  From You Tube video of Tazlina Trading Post Fire by "Polar ...

Naomi Young Of Casa De La Arte Watched Her Dreams Go Up In Smoke 5 Days Before Christmas

"We're Going To Have To Start From Scratch" Casa De La Arte, as shown on Polar Remedies You Tube video Naomi Young rented a sp...

Alaska Corrects Definition of "Copper River" In Data Hub Presentation

Finally!  DHSS Adds "Copper River" Statistics To Data Hub Presentation  Special to the Country Journal: Copyright © David Mudrick,...

Walya Hobson First Saw Santa Claus When She Was Seven Years Old At School

"We Used To Order Things In Catalogs" Walya Hobson was born so long ago in the wilds of Alaska that she had one of those pretty, R...


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