Fred Meyer hopes to add another 10,000 square feet to its Wasilla store, but city and state officials want to make sure the retail giant doesn't gum up traffic.
Charities begin Juneau electric grant program
Two charities in Juneau have rolled outa city-funded grant program designed to help thousands of low-income residents handlea 447 percent increase in the price of electricity.
Computer glitch delays Ice Classic tally
Organizers of the Nenana Ice Classic still aren't ready to announce how many people correctly guessed the moment when the ice would break up on the Tanana River, even though that moment happened a week ago. "Our computer had an issue," Ice Classic manager Amanda Wubbold said today. "We had to have a laser card rushed to us from Ohio or Utah or someplace."
Death toll in China rising from earthquake
One of the worst earthquakes in decades struck central China on Monday, killing nearly 9,000 people, trapping about 900 students under the rubble of their school and causing a toxic chemical leak, state media reported.
First Copper River salmon in Seattle on Friday
Alaska Airlines says its first 737 freighter filled with Copper River salmon will arrive Friday at Sea-Tac Airport in Seattle.
Bulldozers have cleared a portion of a field just southwest of the intersection of Palmer-Wasilla Highway and Trunk Road.
Valley potato farm is next to face development
In April, bulldozers began scraping off the coffee-brown "potato dirt," the first harbinger of development coming to the intersection of Palmer-Wasilla Highway and Trunk Road.
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Art La Rue's approach is unorthodox, but he's nationally recognized as a teacher who gets things right. Earlier this school year, U.S. Department of Education Secretary Margaret Spellings presented him with the American Star of Teaching, given annually to one teacher in each state.
School budget language plays up the risks to kids
Legislature steps in to prisons dispute
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Mid-Atlantic storm cuts power, prompts evacuations
A wet, gusty storm that lashed the mid-Atlantic states Monday forced evacuations, flooded roads, fanned the flames of a deadly New Jersey fire and wrecked a brand-new research vessel off the Delaware coast, killing a crew member.
Da-ka-xeen Mehner uses dagger and mask forms from Tlingit culture to explore the challenges and identities of a man balancing cultures, lifestyles and more.
Here are some bar-specific codes compiled from my research and observation. Consider this a refresher as the summer party season approaches.
Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher star as strangers who unwittingly end up as bride and groom in this comedy. When one of them strikes it rich after playing the other person's coin, the pair gets married. But all's fair in love and war--and Las Vegas--as each of them tries to get the money.
Jazz trumpet giant Arturo Sandoval, a protege of Dizzy Gillespie, brings his Latin-influenced mix of jazz, classical, rock and Caribbean music to town Saturday courtesy of the Anchorage Concert Association.
Taking part in the not - so - glamorous act of spring-cleaning the dog yard the other day, I thought, "This is not a good time to be a musher."
Using a rubber mallet, Matt Weaver gently hammered the plastic tap into a half-inch hole in a birch tree at Kincaid Elementary School.
Embark on an Alaska adventure with photographer Marc Lester's narrated slide shows.
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Check out images from the wild and goofy event to cap off the ski and snowboard season.
For maybe the first time in Alaska Wild history, the drama on the field exceeded the drama off it.
Celtics still searching for 1st playoff road win
Duke pitches Pirates past Braves to open twinbill
Top Cuban athlete still missing from national judo team
Altercation over, feelings not for Red Wings and Stars
Florida football player shot in the shoulder
Suspects in Taylor murder won't face death penalty
Report: USC guard O.J. Mayo got cash, benefits from promoter
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Carlos Boozer, Utah Jazz star and Alaska Sports Hall of Fame inductee, says his body art is about life, family and God.
Seattle fish-egg auctions net hundreds of millions
Bidders walked deliberately among trays of small, lung-shaped sacs full of fish eggs. The room inside a nondescript gray trailer near Seattle's waterfront was white from floor to ceiling, setting off the bright red of the roe sacs.
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The city needs to work out more details on a recycling plan so the Assembly has no excuse for rejecting it.
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From the Chugach to the Chignik.. Alaskan's love a good adventure. Watch them, and post one of your own.
Watch brown bears in Katmai, porpoises up close and moose leaping over fences.
Send in your pictures of the "real big-sky country."
What's on your plate? Post a photo and explanation and check out others.
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The weather's warmer and the bears are out. Have you run into any? Post pictures or stories of your latest sightings.
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The original hit puzzle from Tim Parker set the standard for all online crosswords that followed.
What is Sudoku? It's a global sensation! Sudoku is a number-placement puzzle that is mentally challenging, easy to learn and highly addictive.
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