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Video: Ski Buckner! Abandoned Whittier high-rise still good for a thrill

Logan Imlach and Matt Wild created what may have been the world's most unusual ski run last spring in Whittier. 3 hours ago

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2nd public radio station may help keep peace in Kodiak

A decades-long battle in Kodiak over what the public radio station should broadcast -- more music or more news and talk -- may soon be over, or at least simmer a bit. The Kodiak Daily Mirror reports this is the year KMXT is set to debut a second station, something previously accomplished ...
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Poll: Clinton would have shot at winning Alaska in 2016; Begich re-election chances strong

More polling signs that Alaska might be becoming a more moderate state: Public Policy Polling finds Hillary Clinton could be competitive in Alaska if she runs for president in 2016, and both Clinton and Democratic Sen. Mark Begich have considerable crossover appeal among Republicans and independents...
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Octopus mom has SeaLife Center scientists crossing fingers

Scientists at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward are hoping to see their first baby octopus in almost a decade as their giant Pacific octopus LuLu attends to hundreds or thousands of eggs she laid after mating months ago. The Seward Phoenix Log reports that the scientists are even hoping...
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Unalaska police blotter

Suspicious Person/Activity – A drunken man phoned police and said he was naked, cold, and exposing himself to passing vehicles and in need of assistance. He was unable to name or describe his location. Officers searched the common and not so common haunts of naked drunks but did not find the...
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Video: Daring adventures inside Alaska's blue ice

Alaskan Alan Gordon and friends spent a year filming their climbing feats on the Juneau Icefield and inside its blue-ice cracks and tunnels. Gordon is working on a documentary that he hopes will call attention to Alaska's vanishing glaciers. In the meantime, the U.K.'s Daily Mail has posted a...
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State to offer geothermal exploration lease at Augustine volcano

Alaska will offer potential developers the chance to explore geothermal resources at an active volcano in Cook Inlet, the state's oldest producing oil and gas basin, state officials said on Monday.
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Bethel newspaper is rounding up Y-K tales of Hairy Man, aka Bigfoot

The Delta Discovery in Bethel isn't taking sides on whether the fabled Hairy Man -- a Y-K Delta version of Bigfoot -- is a "real animal." But last week the paper published the first in what it says will be a series of accounts of alleged sightings, and it's calling on locals to share accounts...
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Tsunami-launched polystyrene foam on Southcentral beaches called disastrous

Only five items of debris in Alaska from the 2011 Japan tsunami have been officially identified by federal officials, but coastal watchdogs say the debris items already number in the thousands or millions and worry there'll be little funding to clean it up. They're especially worried about Styrofoam...
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Unalaska fights back against attacking eagles

Unalaskans continue to do battle with dive-bombing eagles that are defending nests on the cliff faces in the Aleutians city. In the past, people injured by eagles from a nest right outside the Iliuliuk health clinic didn't have far to walk to get medical attention. But that nest was one of two that...
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Return of Joe Miller: Good news for Democrats?

RealClearPolitics updates nationwide readers on failed Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller and speculates on the upcoming battle for Sen. Mark Begich's Senate seat. RCP reporter Scott Conroy says Miller is expected to announce his intentions "in the coming weeks."