Carolyn Haggard lives on an island on Flat Lake, a wooded refuge in the unincorporated community of Big Lake that’s about a 90-minute drive north of Anchorage but a world away. Haggard, like most ...

Author and travel guide Luc Mehl says he counted as many as 50 rings at one spot and the circles spread out nearly 300 feet. That’s a skating companion Kevin Kelly at the center of the circle. Luc ...

A 79-year-old Big Lake woman has died, after Alaska State Troopers say she was struck by a dirt bike being illegally driven on a pedestrian path. Troopers say the crash was reported around 4:30 p.m.