Matanuska Susitna Borough spokesperson Patti Sullivan says the legal action is not holding up work on the rail spur. “The Mat Su Borough, the railroad, the state of Alaska and the arm of the ...

The Matanuska-Susitna Borough and the Alaska Railroad Corp. have joined to oppose a court challenge to the Surface Transportation Board’s approval of construction for the Port MacKenzie Rail ...

The rail project, first spearheaded by borough officials in 2005, sought to link the existing Alaska Railroad line in Houston ... When work ended on the spur in 2017, rights of way spanning ...

A Big Lake Republican has reintroduced a bill that would require the state of Alaska to sell the Alaska ... for “the construction of new railroad spurs and rail lines to access resource-rich ...

Alaska Railroad Corp. said Tuesday ... Cars were in the middle of a switching operation along the spur when the incident occurred. The loaded cars hit a small trailer loaded with sheetrock, rolled ...