Why an Alaska island is using peanut butter and black lights to find a rat that might not exist
On an island of windswept tundra in the Bering Sea, hundreds of miles from mainland Alaska, a resident sitting outside
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Alaska governor declares disaster after landslide kills 1, hospitalizes 3 others
Landslide also destroyed homes and infrastructure One person was killed by a landslide that prompted a mandatory evacuation in the
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Hunter in Alaska recovering after being mauled by bear and shot amid effort to fend it off
32-year-old man shot in the leg as he and hunting companion opened fire on bear A hunter in Alaska was
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Residents in Alaska capital clean up swamped homes after an ice dam burst and unleashed a flood
In her yard in Juneau, Alaska, Debbie Penrose Fischer leafed through a waterlogged cookbook with sentimental value Wednesday that she
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U.S. judge suspends Alaska Cook Inlet lease, pending additional environmental review
By Becky Bohrer · The Associated Press Judge rules original environmental review didn’t properly analyze impacts on belugas An environmental review underpinning
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Cruise ship-free Saturdays would ease tourism burden, say some in Juneau, Alaska
By Becky Bohrer · The Associated Press But some businesses say they would suffer if cruise ships were limited on weekends Each
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Agreement to limit cruise passengers in Alaska’s capital criticized as insufficient
By Becky Bohrer · The Associated Press Record of more than 1.6 million cruise ship passengers visited Juneau last year A new
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Malaysian climber who died near top of Alaska’s Denali identified
A Malaysian climber likely died of exposure and altitude-related illness earlier this week after sheltering for days in a snow
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Japanese climber dies after fall on Alaska’s Mount Denali
Rangers found man’s body Monday, a day after they were contacted by family Rangers in Alaska have recovered the body
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Investigators say Alaska charter boat likely capsized after flooding, killing 5
Coast Guard ‘cannot definitively say exactly what caused Awakin to capsize,’ says lead investigator A fishing charter boat found partially
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Moose kills Alaska man attempting to take photos of her newborn calves
Animals are not normally aggressive unless provoked, spokesperson says A 70-year-old Alaska man who was attempting to take photos of
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A southeast Alaska community wrestles with a deadly landslide’s impact
Jamie Roberts and her husband felt lucky when they found an A-frame cabin on forest-draped Wrangell Island in southeast Alaska,
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Musher’s win makes Iditarod history, but race is marred by 3 sled dog deaths
By Mark Thiessen · The Associated Press Dallas Seavey finished race Tuesday in Nome, winning for unprecedented 6th time Alaska’s annual Iditarod
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5-time Iditarod champion shoots dead, guts moose during the annual sled dog race
Race rules state that Iditarod mushers must gut, report any defensive killings of large animals A veteran musher had to
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Putin issues warning about western troops in Ukraine, highlights nuclear threat
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday delivered a blunt message to the West, warning that it risks provoking a global
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