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As promised in a legal settlement reached last week, the joint city-state committee that plans for Anchorage's transportation needs voted Thursday to rescind an earlier vote to delay construction of the proposed Knik Arm bridge project until after 2018.
Knik bridge delay put on hold by judge
A state judge has temporarily blocked a decision to delay the Knik Arm bridge project until at least 2018.
Knik bridge agency plans intervention in case
The state agency created to push for a Knik Arm bridge says it will try to intervene in a court case seeking to block a delay in the project.
Judge delays decision on bridge
A state judge heard arguments Friday from the mayors of two Mat-Su towns who want to block a decision to push the proposed Knik Arm crossing further back in Anchorage's transportation plan, and scheduled another hearing in mid-July.
State-city panel approves delaying Knik Arm bridge
A joint state-city committee that makes decisions on major transportation and highway projects in Anchorage voted unanimously this afternoon to push the Knik Arm bridge project back a few years.
Knik Arm bridge compromise OK'd by Assembly
The Anchorage Assembly voted late Wednesday night for a compromise proposal intended to keep the Knik Arm bridge project alive while pushing it several years back in the city's long-range transportation plan.
Group seeks decade delay in Knik Arm bridge project
An advisory group of state, city and professional planners and engineers says the proposed Knik Arm bridge project should be pushed back about a decade, but that planning for ways to finance and build it should continue.
Proposed Knik Arm bridge dealt setback in committee vote
The ground beneath the proposed Knik Arm crossing got a little shakier Thursday when a slim majority of an important state-city planning agency voted to put it on a track to nowhere.
Knik bridge sent back to committee
Does Southcentral Alaska need a half-billion-dollar bridge to connect Anchorage with the Mat-Su?
Assembly to vote on support for Knik bridge
Two Anchorage Assembly members want their colleagues to withdraw the city's support for the Knik Arm bridge project, arguing the tens of millions of dollars in federal money directed to it could be better spent on other local transportation needs.
State seeks new cost estimate for Knik Arm bridge
An independent party will be called in to look at one of the most elusive aspects of a proposed bridge linking Anchorage and Mat-Su: the price tag.
Liabilities blur Knik bridge agency's cost estimates
With the state asking pointed questions about cost projections for a Knik Arm bridge from Anchorage to Point MacKenzie, the agency charged with creating the crossing released new estimates that outline rising prices and potential costs.
Knik Arm bridge hits fork in the road
After five years and $41.5 million in public money, one of Alaska's most ambitious development dreams, the Knik Arm bridge has come to a fork in the road. Top officials have left, the project is called excessive spending and a new governor is asking questions.
2 polls, 2 opinions on Knik Arm bridge
A trio of groups critical of the massive Knik Arm bridge project released new poll results saying a majority of Alaskans want to stop spending government money on the project.
Legislators want say in Knik bridge deal
Two bills introduced in Juneau on Wednesday would require legislative approval of any proposed deal to build the Knik Arm bridge.
Knik bridge project marks a milestone
The long-hoped for, much-ridiculed Knik Arm bridge project is quietly moving forward, as supporters recently cleared a permitting hurdle and hired three law firms to lobby for them in Washington, D.C.
Bridge access plan unpopular on Hill
A recently released draft environmental impact statement for the proposed Knik Arm Bridge holds no surprises, but its call for a road through Government Hill has some residents' blood boiling.
As crews got the upper hand on the Point MacKenzie fire west of Wasilla, another wildfire near Sutton shut down the Glenn Highway for hours Sunday afternoon.
The rush for land at Point MacKenzie
Chains blocking access to some of the muddy lanes off West Point MacKenzie Road routinely sport two signs: No Trespassing and For Sale. Talk of a Knik Arm bridge and a plan to start a ferry between Anchorage and Mat-Su by 2008 has fueled a run of specul
Senate votes on diverting bridge money
A freshman senator from Oklahoma tried Thursday to divert $452 million from two Alaska bridge projects and spend some of it on a hurricane-damaged bridge in New Orleans.
Knik bridge gets hard look in city, Mat-Su
Anchorage and Mat-Su residents raised fundamental questions about a proposal to bridge Knik Arm during meetings attended by hundreds of people on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.
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Concourses A & B open in the South Terminal with an art show and live music at Anchorage's airport.
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