Alaska: Search continues for escaped Iditarod dog
It’s been 10 days since the last musher crossed under Nome’s burled arch, but one musher is still looking for one
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High temperatures sink vehicles traveling ice roads in Western Alaska
BETHEL — Two pickup trucks used by construction crews working on a water and sewer project in the village of Kwethluk on
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Opposition emerges to repeal of daylight saving time in Alaska
JUNEAU — After sailing through the state Senate, a bill to opt Alaska out of daylight saving time is hitting
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Divisions in Alaska community over proposed liquor store
BETHEL – An emotional conflict over alcohol in a Western Alaska hub that’s gone back and forth for more than
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Alaska senate passes bill to end daylight saving time
The Alaska State Senate has passed a bill that would eliminate daylight saving time. Fighting over Alaska’s clocks has been
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Alaska: Project to arm village officers begins with just 3 making initial cut
BETHEL — Just three Alaska village public safety officers passed background checks, a physical fitness test and a psychological evaluation so they
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Alaska: Brent Sass kicked out of Iditarod for breaking communications rule
Brent Sass, the winner of last month’s Yukon Quest, was disqualified from the Iditarod on Tuesday night for breaking a
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Alaska: Fairbanks snowstorm a blessing for snow-starved Iditarod mushers
FAIRBANKS — The caravan of mushers who all made it to Fairbanks on Monday for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
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Proposed cuts to public broadcasting funding rile rural Alaska radio listeners
JUNEAU — Facing the prospect of possibly devastating cuts proposed by a legislative committee, fans of public radio and television are
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Alaska bill moves to dump daylight savings time
Time is a social construct. Its movement is the subject of perennial debate in science, and some physicists have gone
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$1 minimum wage increase to $8.75 takes effect Tuesday in Alaska
Alaska’s minimum wage will rise Tuesday to $8.75, a $1-per-hour increase that will affect thousands of workers’ paychecks, according to
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Survey finds violence against women widespread in Western Alaska region
At least 51 percent of women in the Nome census area have experienced physical abuse at the hands of an intimate partner, sexual
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Iditarod restart in Fairbanks, Alaska has communities regrouping and preparing
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is known for its highs and lows, and the decision to move the restart from
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Iditarod board moves race restart from Willow, Alaska to Fairbanks
For only the second time in its 43-year history, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is headed to Fairbanks. A unanimous decision to
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As House leadership calls for end to Point Thomson, Alaska litigation, attorneys request extension
Attorneys challenging the Point Thomson settlement have requested more time to prepare a new brief on the case. APRN’s Alexandra
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