Brigade commander Col. Morris Goins addresses his troops and guests at a U.S. Army Alaska deployment ceremony for the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division Tuesday morning November 29, 2011 at Sullivan Arena. The 3,500-soldier brigade will be departing for Afghanistan on a series of flights in November and December.
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Food Bank of Alaska Thanksgiving Blessing
The Food Bank of Alaska Thanksgiving Blessing project is a community-wide effort to provide turkeys and all the fixings to everyone in need on one day, Monday, Nov. 21, 2011, from seven locations and is expected to provide enough food to feed around 7,000 families.
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Project manager Dustin Highers discusses the Southcentral Power Project located at the Chugach Electric Association headquarters off International Airport Road in Anchorage.
Touring the Goose Creek Correctional Center
Corrections commissioner Joe Schmidt describes the new Goose Creek Correctional Center slated to begin accepting prisoners in March of 2012 at Point MacKenzie.
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Master Sgt. Roger Sparks talks about the experience of Operation Bulldog Bite in Afghanistan.
Knight's Taxidermy stars in reality TV
Russell Knight and his shop, Knight's Taxidermy on Arctic Boulevard in Anchorage, have a show on the History Channel called Mounted in Alaska.
Anchorage's urban homesteaders
Saskia Esslinger and her husband Matt Oster are doing the Alaska Food Challenge by pledging to eat all Alaskan for a whole year. They are growing a lot of their own food at their urban homestead in midtown Anchorage in addition to supporting local farmers.
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Take a look around Talkeetna, Alaska, during the busy summer tourist season. Kim Hoiby, employee of Nagley's General Store, talks about the character of the quirky town.
Red, White and Blue Crew Marching Band
The Red, White and Blue Crew marching band practiced on Thursday, June 30, 2011 at Service High School to prepare for the Anchorage July 4th parade.
Husky social hour takes place three times a week at the Matanuska-Susitna Borough Animal Care Facility near Palmer for the dogs rescued from a breeder in January.
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The state hockey tournament started Thursday, February 9, 2012. The championship game will be played on Saturday, Feb. 11.
Justices from left Craig Stowers, Dana Fabe, Walter Carpeneti and Daniel Winfree listen to arguments during the third annual Supreme Court LIVE educational program Wednesday, February 8, 2012 in the West High School auditorium.
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.
Submit your photos from community projects and social occasions around town in January, 2012.
Cordova residents are tunneling out after several snow storms moved through Prince William Sound.
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.
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