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 ...

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.

The Port of Anchorage in 2016. It was later renamed the Port of Alaska, and is now the Don Young Port of Alaska. (Photo by Eric Keto/Alaska Public Media) A legislator from Big Lake has a vision of ...