Bears Alaska News Today

The Delta Junction project is the Wasilla-based company’s 22nd location, all but one of them in Alaska.

The market was named one of the best independent grocery stores in the country.

The Wasilla-based grocery and retail chain is hustling to convert new acquisitions while continuing work on other projects.

Three Bears Alaska is now the owner of the Gold Hill liquor store in Ester, a small community near Fairbanks. The Wasilla-based retail chain closed the deal on Wednesday, then began replacing signage and equipment and inventory in time to reopen this morning as the 20th Three Bears store in Alaska.

Three Bears Alaska, a chain with locations in Southcentral and Interior Alaska, plans to open a new location in Saxman, just south of downtown.

Officials with the Wasilla-based grocery- and retail-store chain Three Bears Alaska say they intend to expand operations in the state now that they’ve entered into a deal with a private-equity firm based in the Pacific Northwest.

Three Bears is a family-owned retailer that has grown over the past four decades into a large family-owned firm.

Early talks toward the potential of building a new grocery store in Saxman are underway.