Tue Dec 27, 2011 5:33 PM EST
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed prosecutors' argument that a BP subsidiary violated its probation after an oil spill because of another spill on Alaska's North Slope.
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Fri Nov 25, 2011 12:44 AM EST
Dog mushing and a snowball fight.
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Thu Nov 24, 2011 10:48 PM EST
Riquna Williams scored 17 points and No. 9 Miami beat South Florida 92-72 in the final of the Great Alaska Shootout on Thursday night.
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Fri Oct 21, 2011 4:02 AM EDT
An Anchorage endodontist performed a root canal on a big tooth in a very big patient — a full-grown Siberian tiger.
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Tue Oct 11, 2011 5:05 PM EDT
An investigation is under way after an SUV crashed through the front wall of an Alaska house, missing the homeowner by inches.
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Fri Sep 30, 2011 9:23 PM EDT
A significant population of rats must be removed from a vessel seized for illegal fishing before it will be allowed to dock in Alaska, the Coast Guard said Saturday.
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Fri Sep 23, 2011 9:37 PM EDT
An envelope containing white powder prompted the evacuation of the federal building in Anchorage, Alaska, Friday.
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Tue Sep 20, 2011 9:04 PM EDT
The nation's F-22 fighter jets went back into service Wednesday, four months after they were grounded over pilot complaints about a lack of oxygen.
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Fri Aug 26, 2011 5:15 AM EDT
Jennifer Tullis still keeps her husband's camouflage uniform in the closet, all starched, ironed and folded, even though he died 12 years ago.
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Wed Aug 17, 2011 5:31 AM EDT
Alaska has some of the most beautiful, remote and prolific fishing spots in the world, but some would be surprised to learn that one of the most popular is in the heart of downtown Anchorage.
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Tue Aug 2, 2011 8:20 PM EDT
A fisheries aide to U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has acknowledged falsifying records that netted him an extra $100,000 while commercial fishing in southeast Alaska in 2005.
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Wed May 18, 2011 4:36 PM EDT
A woman physically and emotionally abused at least six of her adopted children over a decade, including forcing them to use buckets as toilets and limiting their diet so severely that it stunted their growth, authorities said.
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Tue Mar 22, 2011 8:45 PM EDT
At least 32 musk oxen were found frozen in the ice on the northern coast of Alaska's Seward Peninsula, killed in the aftermath of a tidal surge and flooding from a winter storm blowing in off the Chukchi Sea, the National Park Service said Tuesday.
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Fri Feb 4, 2011 5:47 PM EST
Sarah Palin is attempting to trademark her name ahead of a possible 2012 presidential run.
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Mon Oct 18, 2010 3:35 AM EDT
The ice-choked reaches of the northern Arctic Ocean aren't widely perceived as an international shipping route. But global warming is bringing vast change, and Russia, for one, is making an aggressive push to establish top of the world sea lanes.
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Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:40 AM EDT
Ever miss your childhood days riding around in a red wagon?
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Thu Sep 9, 2010 8:40 PM EDT
A newly released video shows survivors of the plane crash that killed former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens being loaded into a Coast Guard cargo plane and treated during a flight to Anchorage.
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Wed Sep 1, 2010 12:44 AM EDT
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski's stunning defeat in the Alaska primary ends a 30-year family legacy of holding that seat, an era that spanned a majority of Alaska's statehood.
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Fri Aug 20, 2010 6:31 PM EDT
The Department of Justice has decided not to pursue charges against former VECO Corp. Chairman Bill Allen in a child sexual abuse investigation, officials said Friday.
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Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:07 PM EDT
A man from a remote Alaska community who was accused of compiling a hit list of targets he believed were enemies of Islam was sentenced Monday to eight years in prison.
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Wed Aug 11, 2010 6:26 PM EDT
An Anchorage hospital has released one of the four people who survived a plane crash that killed former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens and four others.
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Wed Aug 11, 2010 12:15 PM EDT
Former Sen. Ted Stevens lay dead in the mangled fuselage of the plane. A 13-year-old boy escaped death but his father died a few feet away. Medical workers spent the miserable night tending to survivors' broken bones amid a huge slick of fuel that coated a muddy mountainside.
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Wed Aug 11, 2010 6:29 AM EDT
Former Sen. Ted Stevens lay dead in the mangled fuselage of the plane. A 13-year-old boy escaped death but watched his father die a few feet away. Medical workers spent the miserable night tending to survivors' broken bones amid a huge slick of fuel that coated a muddy mountainside.
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Tue Aug 10, 2010 6:21 PM EDT
A float plane carrying former Sen. Ted Stevens crashed into a remote mountain in Alaska, killing the revered former senator and four others and stranding survivors on a rainy, brush-covered hillside for more than 12 hours, authorities said Tuesday.
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Tue Aug 10, 2010 2:50 PM EDT
To much of the nation, Ted Stevens was the crotchety senator who famously referred to the Internet as "a series of tubes" and fought to build the "Bridge to Nowhere."
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