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Three corrections officers were shot and wounded — two by the accomplice and one by responding police — during the attack in the ambulance bay of the hospital.
This year the deaths of three dogs during the race — and five more during training — have refocused attention on the darker side of Alaska’s state sport.
He faces two counts each of first- and second-degree murder, four counts of attempted murder, seven counts of assault and a burglary charge in the shooting that left two people dead and two others injured.
Claims of violence against women are roiling the world’s most famous sled dog race — Alaska’s Iditarod — with officials disqualifying two top mushers this week and then quickly reinstating one of them on Friday, days before the start.
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows was not home when the swatting call was made, and responding officers found nothing suspicious.
There were no injuries to the 19 crew members aboard the 410-foot Genius Star XI, which was carrying a load of lithium-ion batteries across the Pacific.
The invasion prompted the war’s only battle on North American soil, and the entire population of Attu was captured and sent to Japan, where they were held until the war ended.
A refurbishing effort in Eklutna will breathe new life into Anchorage’s oldest standing building, a simple Russian Orthodox log church dating from the era of Russia’s colonization of Alaska.
Army officials say the accident happened on a dirt road as the soldiers were headed to the Yukon Training Area south of Fairbanks.
Footage recorded deep in the Pacific Ocean is giving the world the first detailed glimpse of three aircraft carriers that sank in the Battle of Midway, which marked a shift in control of the Pacific naval theater from Japanese to U.S. forces.
Elizabeth Wilkins was holding onto hope that if any animal would survive the house falling into the Mendenhall River, it would be Leo, the couple’s resilient big-eyed, black-and-white cat.
Michael Regan, touring Alaska this week, said he fully supports the Environmental Protection Agency decision to block the Alaska gold and copper mine, even as the state has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn that action.
The mayor’s proposal came under attack as a Band-Aid solution glossing over the tremendous, and still unaddressed, crisis facing Anchorage as a swelling homeless population struggles to survive in a unique and extreme environment compared to other U.S. cities.
The passengers were employees of Alaska’s Department of Natural Resources, working in the Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys.
Thanks to a cool, wet summer, Alaska wildfires so far this year have burned just 1½ times the size of New York’s Central Park.