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Quinn Iten, of Kotzebue, booties his dog Beavis. Gray is ready to go as the team prepares to leave Takotna.
A 23-year-old may be in position to swipe Rick Swenson's title as the Iditarod's youngest champion. Dallas Seavey is at the halfway point in Cripple, leading the 64 mushers still racing and admiring the $3,000 in gold nuggets he's earned as the first racer to the abandoned mining town.
Photos: Day 5 (McGrath and Takotna)
Pack of icons bears down on leaders
No injuries in plane crash near Ophir checkpoint
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ALASKA POLITICS BLOG
After 18 years in the Alaska Legislature representing South Anchorage and the Hillside and more recently as the Senate's minority leader, Republican Con Bunde announced this morning he won't run for re-election.
Villagers unnerved by fearless wolves after teacher's death
Residents of Chignik Lake were on patrol Wednesday, hunting for wolves they blame for the death this week of a schoolteacher as she was jogging on an isolated road.
The Alaska House has passed an $8.1 billion state operating budget. The measure, which contains funding conditions for state natural gas pipeline work, now goes to the Senate.
The visiting Ontario Reign coughed up a pair of two-goal leads. The home-standing Alaska Aces rallied for three straight third-period goals to take their first lead of the night late in regulation. And the visitors forced overtime with an extra-attacker goal with about a minute left in regulation.
JEFF LOWENFELS
Dahlias can be like amaryllises. They are almost too easy to grow. Tuber or seed, all you need to do is add water and, like amaryllises indoors in the winter, there is a good chance your dahlias will produce some of the garden's most impressive summer flowers.
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A license plate sna ... er, mistake ... in the Yukon
When the U.S. military finished building the Alaska Highway through Canada, it left behind place names that are not fit for vehicle license plates, according to the Yukon government.
The original hit puzzle from Tim Parker set the standard for all online crosswords that followed.
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