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Alaska Wild Season Finale

Striker greets fans during the Alaska Wild Indoor Football League season finale Thursday evening July 9, 2009 at Sullivan Arena.

The Alaska Wild take on the Fairbanks Grizzlies in their season finale of the Indoor Football League season Thursday July 9, 2009 at Sullivan Arena.

Brush Fire

Anchorage Fire Department firefighter Jason Jeffers sprays a foam and water mixture during mop up of a brush fire near Tikishla Park in Airport Heights on Wednesday, July 8, 2009.

The Anchorage Fire Department responded to a brush fire near Tikishla Park in Airport Heights, just off a bike trail near 20th Avenue and Rosemary Street a little before 1 p.m. on Wednesday, July 8, 2009.

Hill Climb

Arctic Bicycle Club's Clarks Road Hill Climb which started at Potter Marsh and finished 6.22-miles later at the top of Clarks Road in the foothills of the Chugach Mountains during record breaking heat in Anchorage on Tuesday, July 7, 2009.

Arctic Bicycle Club's Clarks Road Hill Climb which started at Potter Marsh and finished 6.22-miles later at the top of Clarks Road in the foothills of the Chugach Mountains during record breaking heat in Anchorage on Tuesday, July 7, 2009.

Jackson Funeral

Images from the "King of Pop's" spectactular funeral at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Monday July 7, 2009.

PHOTO GALLERY

Palin in Bristol Bay

Gov. Sarah Palin steps out of her skiff at the family's setnet on Bristol Bay, July 6, 2007. Her daughter Piper stands near the stern.

Three days after Gov. Sarah Palin made her shocking resignation announcement, she spoke to the media during a visit to the family setnet fishing site on Bristol Bay.

PHOTO GALLERY

Insects and spiders

Orb weaver spiders are some of the largest found in Alaska gardens. They eat many kinds of insects.

Some of the many good and bad bugs that can be found in our gardens.

Goose Lake

Siblings Michael Grace, 16, Jimmy Grace, 13, and Kirsten Grace, 12, take a paddleboat out on Goose Lake as the temperature nears the 80-degree mark in Anchorage on Monday, July 6, 2009,

Goose Lake was a popular spot with the temperature near 80-degrees in Anchorage on Monday, July 6, 2009.

Shannyn Moore

Radio talk show host and blogger Shannyn Moore held a press conference in Anchorage on Sunday, July 5, 2009, in response to claims by Gov. Sarah Palin's attorney that Moore has defamed the governor.

Radio talk show host and blogger Shannyn Moore held a press conference in Anchorage on Sunday, July 5, 2009, in response to claims by Gov. Sarah Palin's attorney that Moore has defamed the governor.

PHOTO GALLERY

Best of July 2009

Alaska Lt. Governor Sean Parnell walks down the driveway to talk about Governor Sarah Palin's announcement that she will step down on July 26th and Parnell will be sworn in as Governor in Fairbanks. Parnell was at the home of the governor in Wasilla.

A selection of the best photos in the Anchorage Daily News in July.

Sizzling Runs at Mount Marathon

Hot, dusty conditions greet runners high on the hill in Mt. Marathon Saturday July 4, 2009 in Seward.

See photos of the runners at the traditional 4th of July race up Seward's Mount Marathon.

Summer fires

Location: East Anchoraeg, 07/08/09 East Anchorage Brush Fire

Submit your photos from the fires that have been springing up around Alaska this hot and dry summer.

Independance Day celebrations

Location: Wasilla home, 07/03/09 Ki Ara Sullivan in patriot colors decorated by her grand mother Debbie and Ki Ara herself

Reader photos from the 2009 Independence Day celebrations around Alaska.

2009 Summer solstice

Location: Kustavi, Finland

If ever there was a place to celebrate the longest day of the year, it's Alaska, where the days are super-long already.

Dad and Me

Location: muldoon park My daughter Lilith and my husband Will.

Celebrate your father on Father's Day (or the other 364 days of the year for that matter) by showing off photos of "Dad and Me."

2009 Run for Women

Location: Anchorage, Alaska more alaska run for women

Share your photos from this year's event and flip through the galleries of others at the event.

Westchester Lagoon Improved

Marc Lester / Anchorage Daily News  The Chester Creek Aquatic Habitat Restoration project includes a new viewing platform and the creek routed under through a culver under the railroad tracks west of Westchester Lagoon.090630

Westchester Lagoon has seen major improvements with a major goal of restoring the historic run of salmon up Chester Creek.

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Russian River: Fish On!

A line of fishermen stretches into the Russian River on Thursday, June 25, 2009, as they vie for sockeye salmon during a good day in the summer run.

Hundreds of fishermen crowded the confluence of the Kenai and Russian rivers June 26, 2009. Many caught their sockeye salmon limit in the classic Alaska combat fishing scene on the Kenai Peninsula.

Russian River awash with reds and anglers

The Zoo's Youngsters

Alaska Zoo development director Eileen Floyd talks about the bear cubs who now occupy an outdoor facility and shows one of the zoo's newest arrivals, a baby musk ox.

JUNE 2009

Explore the Winner Creek trail

Explore the Winner Creek Trail, in Girdwood, which takes hikers over boardwalks, gravel and steps on the easy lower portion near the Hotel Alyeska. The upper trail climbs higher in the Chugach Mountains toward Winner Creek Pass before descending to the Twentymile River.

Rabbit Creek Road flowers

Rabbit Creek flower bed

Susanne Comellas and her Rabbit Creek neighbors volunteer at the 20th annual planting of a triangular median at the northbound Rabbit Creek Road on-ramp to the Seward Highway Tuesday morning June 2, 2009 in south Anchorage.

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