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Matanuska-Susitna Borough -- which covers about 25,000 square miles north of Anchorage -- submitted a bid to host the 2024 Arctic Winter Games.
The Arctic Winter Games happen every two years. It’s a multi-sport event and Indigenous cultural celebration involving communities and participants from around the Circumpolar North.
And this is the Matanuska-Susitna Borough’s first real shot at hosting the convention. The borough’s purchasing officer Russ Kraft says the borough has bid on previous games, but never made it this far into the process.
“We're hoping that at the end of March, first of April we’ll receive notification from the international committee that our bid has been accepted,” Kraft said. “Once that happens, we have to work out a few details in terms of the contract that is signed between the borough and the international committee to go ahead and get moving forward.”