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2011/12 Alaska winter

From low sunlight, plunging temperatures and massive snow fall, Alaska's winter are an extreme mix of beauty and danger. Post a photo of you how you live through it.

RSVP: January - 2012

Location: Sheraton Anchorage, 01/14/12 The Chenega Commercial Holdings, LLC team poses for a group photo at the 2011 Stars of the Industry event at the Sheraton Anchorage.  The Alaska Hotel & Lodging Association hosts this annual event to recognize and celebrate excellence in the hospitality industry.

Submit your photos from community projects and social occasions around town in January, 2012.

Cordova snowstorm

Location: Cordova, AlaskaThis was even before the final part of the storm!

Cordova residents are tunneling out after several snow storms moved through Prince William Sound.

January Valdez snowstorm

Heavy snow pounded Valdez and Cordova on January 6, 2012, after the town received 19.2 inches Thursday from the Prince William Sound blizzard, making for a season total of more than 20 feet. Meanwhile, Nome is having its worst cold spell since 1989.

Frosty Alaskans

Alaska is in deep freeze and it's not only the trees that are covered in frost. Send us the photos of you braving the cold.

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People seated in the section reserved for NANA Regional Corporation at the AFN conference watch a video that introduces musher John Baker to the audience. Baker, the 2011 Iditarod champion from Kotzebue, gave the keynote address at the conference Thursday morning. The annual conference of the  Alaska Federation of Natives got underway on Thursday, October 20, 2011, at the Dena'ina Convention Center in Anchorage. The event continues through Saturday.

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Quyana Alaska I

The Wainwright Dancers performed on Wednesday evening, Oct. 19, 2011, during Quyana Alaska I, which is  part of the annual Alaska Federation of Natives convention being held at the Dena'ina Center in Anchorage.

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McGrath-Area Plane Crash

Photo courtesy Alaska State TroopersA small plane carrying six people crashed Saturday night August 13, 2011 west of McGrath, killing the pilot and a longtime school teacher from the nearby village of Anvik. Blackwell School teacher Julie Walker died in the crash along with pilot Ernest Chase.

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A summer day in Barrow

Take a photographic tour of Barrow, Alaska, as captured on June 27, 2011. Barrow, an Inupiat Eskimo city on the coast of the Chukchi Sea, is the northernmost city in the US.

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Tanana bridge

Demolition of the old Tanana River Bridge on March 1, 2011 as viewed from the deck of the new bridge.  (Official DOT&PF photo)

The Tanana River Bridge east of Tok was demolished March 1, 2011.