Fat Bear Week in Alaska is back. And this year, it’s all about the mamas
By Sheena Goodyear For the 1st time, the Alaska contest features mother bears and their cubs The annual brackets-style contest,
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15-year-old rescued after clinging to capsized boat for days in Alaska’s Bering Sea
Two others died after small boat flipped, rescuers say Bobbing for days atop a capsized skiff in Alaska’s frigid Bering
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Charter plane crash kills 8 near remote radar site in western Alaska
Flight took off from Anchorage, believed to have crashed on approach to Cape Newenham A charter aircraft carrying eight people
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Mark Zuckerberg faces questions after yacht failed to respond to Alaska maritime aid call
Spokesperson for Meta CEO says yacht didn’t initially hear the call for assistance Mark Zuckerberg is facing questions after the
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Probe cites history of overweight flights, inadequate oversight in crash that killed 10 off Alaska
The operator of a commuter plane that crashed on sea ice off Alaska last year, killing all 10 people on
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Former reality TV star Jessie Holmes repeats as champion of Iditarod sled dog race
Former reality TV star Jessie Holmes cruised to a repeat victory in the Iditarod, the roughly 1,000-mile (1,609-km) sled dog
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Alaska’s ‘Superbowl’ of dog mushing, the Iditarod, set to run its normal northern route
By Ava White The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is less than a month away and set to run on its
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Crews working to fix Alaska Native villages devastated by flooding. But will residents return?
By Becky Bohrer, Gene Johnson, Mark Thiessen More than 1,600 were displaced, many of them now adapting to different way of life
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Archaeological site in Alaska that casts light on early Yup’ik life ravaged by ex-Typhoon Halong
Bt Becky Bohrer Winds and storm surge may have washed away thousands of unearthed artifacts A fragment of a mask
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Officials work to stabilize typhoon-damaged Alaska communities before winter freeze
The mass evacuation by military aircraft of hundreds of residents from Alaska villages ravaged by the remnants of Typhoon Halong
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What we know about the devastating Alaska storm and the evacuation effort
1 person killed, 2 others missing, and hundreds being flown 800 kilometres to Anchorage after typhoon Hundreds of residents from
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North Alaska storms drive 1,500 from homes, 2 villages are decimated
By Becky Bohrer, Cedar Attanasio, Gene Johnson ‘It’s catastrophic in Kipnuk. Let’s not paint any other picture,’ said one state emergency official
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Chunk, a 1,200-pound bear, wins Alaska Fat Bear Week contest
By Cedar Attanasio, Mark Thiessen ‘Despite his broken jaw, he remains one of the biggest, baddest bears at Brooks River’ Chunk,
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Researcher missing after falling into stream on Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier
By Becky Bohrer Local ice rescue team responded but determined that efforts to find the man would be too dangerous
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Moose collision with kills driver, injures passenger near Alaska’s Denali National Park
24-year-old male driver from Bulgaria was pronounced dead at the scene A driver was killed and a passenger in his
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