Heather Hintze and Will Mader, together with their parents, announce their engagement.

The bride-elect is the daughter of Tim and Lynnette Hintze of Whitefish. She graduated from Whitefish High School in 2003, and from the University of Montana with a degree in broadcast journalism. She is a reporter/photographer for KTVA, the CBS affiliate in Anchorage, Alaska.

Her fiancé is the son of Judie and Juan Rodriquez, and the late William Mader, of Mount Jackson, Virginia. He graduated from Stonewall Jackson High School in 1997, and from Washington State University with a degree in communications in 2003. He is a videographer with KTVA in Anchorage.

A June 16 wedding is planned on Matanuska Glacier in Alaska.