ALASKA'S NEWSPAPER

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Scenic Alaska

Warm winter weather south of the city

Ice is broken up along the shoreline of Portage Lake.Warm winter weather in the area diminished much of the ice and snow south of Anchorage. But what remained gleamed in the sunshine on Tuesday, February 23, 2010.

Warm winter weather diminished much of the ice and snow south of Anchorage. But what remained gleamed in the sunshine on Tuesday, February 23, 2010, along Turnagain Arm, in Girdwood and on Portage Lake.

Nome to Home

Aerial photograph Norton Bay Ice on Tuesday March 17, 2010 during the 2010 Iditarod Sled Dog Race. Photographed from a K2 Aviation Cessna 185 piloted by Warren Woods on a flight from Nome to Anchorage.

Aerial landscape photographs from a small Cessna 185 through Windy Pass, Denali National Park to Nome and back to Anchorage through Rainy Pass.

Aurora Borealis

Alaska's cold, dark winters are perfect for watching the northern lights.

Alaska skies

Iditarod from above

Bob Hallinen offers a unique perspective of the Iditarod trail with these photos from above.

2009 Fall

Location: Kuskokwim River/Nikolai, 9/10/2009

Share your photos of the brilliant fall color across Alaska (before it all goes away).

PHOTOS

Alaska's Glaciers

A Chugach Adventure Guides raft floats among icebergs in Spencer Lake near Spencer Glacier. The Spencer Glacier area is just south of Portage and accessible only by train. The Alaska Railroad is offering whistle-stop service to the glacier area this summer. Visitors can hike or take guided tours on the lake.

Explore Alaska's many glaciers.

PHOTOS

Icy Winter

Photographer Bob Hallinen captures the colors and shapes of winter.

Cold, hard facts

Spring on the Arm

The Kenai and Chugach mountains frame Turnagain Arm and the Seward Highway on Thursday March 27, 2008.

Photographer Bob Hallinen spent a recent afternoon documenting the late winter scenery of Turnagain Arm.

Alaska skies

Reader photos of the "real big-sky country."

2008 Fall

Fall foliage lightens the landscape in front of Pioneer Peak in the Matanuska Valley on Sept. 16, 2008

Images of fall in Alaska submitted by our readers.

Alaska skies

Denali road to open to Savage River

The road into Denali National Park and Preserve is opening to Mile 1 today, weather permitting.

Today is last chance to drive Denali road this season

Weather permitting, today is your last chance this year to drive the park road into Denali National Park and Preserve.

YUKON JOURNAL

Yukon River journey has unplanned end

Laura Chartier takes in the sights while paddling down the Yukon River near Galena.

In the course of what was to be our last day of paddling on the Yukon, we rounded two bends in the river. The first bend was to the right, and after that the river came back around to the left.

Alaska cabins

Location: Lynn Canal, Haines, 8/07/08 Over looking the fishing grounds on Lynn Canal.Haines,AK

Share photos of what you love most about your cabin; bonus for any outhouses that make it into your submissions.

Reader-submitted: 2012 Bicycling

Location: Anchorage, 04/18/2011 Three-wheeling Bud!

Share photos of your races, rides, tricks or even your favorite bike.

READER-SUBMITTED

Alaska birds

Location: Parks Hwy  Northern Hawk Owl

Alaska is home to hundreds of different migrating bird species and readers have posted hundreds of their bird-watching finds. Share your photos.

RSVP: May 2012

Location: Bagram, Afghanistan, 05/01/2012 CW2 Clinton K. Brown III of the Alaska Army National Guard with President Obama 1 May 2012 in Bagram, Afghanistan

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

Alaska-based soldiers headed for Afghanistan

Brigade Deployment Ceremony

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.

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW

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.

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW

Southcentral Power Project

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

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.

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW

Operation Bulldog Bite

Photo courtesy MSgt. Roger Sparks

Master Sgt. Roger Sparks talks about the experience of Operation Bulldog Bite in Afghanistan.



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