North Slope oil: $113.91 per barrel, down $0.93…

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The father of an 18-year-old Anchorage woman who police say was abducted from her espresso
stand says the reward for information that leads to her safe return
has grown to $41,000.
James Koenig, the father of Samantha Koenig, had been offering a
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Alaska authorities say a 36-year-old
North Pole man is accused of trying to extort money from the state
in exchange for not committing acts of terrorism.
Troopers say Stanislaus Grzeskowiak was
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Two men have been sentenced to life in
prison in the beating death of a Hooper Bay man in Bethel.
Jeffrey Hout of Bethel and Harry Williams of Kwethluk were
sentenced Friday in Bethel in connection with the October 2010
death of 19-year-old Benjamin Kaiser.
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The New England Patriots' three star receivers couldn't make the big plays when they needed them. Neither could their superstar quarterback.

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MADRID -- Alberto Contador was stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title Monday and banned for two years after sport's highest court found the Spanish cyclist guilty of doping.

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Overflow on parts of the trail in the Yukon Quest sled dog race from Fairbanks to Whitehorse have mushers up to their knees in water.

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It's the billion-dollar question in Alaska for 2012: Will this be the year Shell Oil begins large-scale offshore exploratory drilling in Arctic waters? Two months into 2012, the oil giant…

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Four months ago I was on top of the world. My business had just been bought by an Alaska Native corporation, giving me enough money to retire and my small…

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UAA skiers dominated racing for a second day at Alyeska Ski Resort, with Alex Parker and Niko Harmanen winning state giant slalom championships Sunday in the final race of the…

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Dori Hollingsworth posted the fastest time for the third straight day to win the Raven Electric 10-dog championship at Tozier Track.

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Anchorage's Kikkan Randall continued to struggle from the aftereffects of the stomach flu, skiing to 25th place Sunday in a World Cup skiathlon in Rybinsk, Russia. She was one of…

Past the clever and impressive costumes, the mothers and daughters skiing sweetly together and the temptation of a silent auction, the deeper reason for the Alaska Ski for Women unfolded…

Hannah Boyer of Fairbanks and Jack Novak of Anchorage took the 10-kilometer titles and Anchorage skiers Lydia Blanchet and Thomas O'Harra claimed the 5-K titles Sunday in the final Besh…

Rachel Steer, who made her name for herself as an Olympic biathlete, was unarmed but still dangerous Sunday at the Alaska Ski for Women.

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Musher Brent Sass had the early lead Sunday on day two of the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race. Sass, of Fairbanks, was the first musher to leave the…

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Anchorage skiers won five out of six age-group races Saturday in Fairbanks in the fifth Conoco Phillips Besh Cup race of the season.

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Next up for the UAA men's basketball team: A chance to avenge its last loss -- and a chance to claim first place in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference.

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New buildings seem to be popping up all over town. They're physical proof of the strength of the Anchorage economy. New construction, particularly speculative construction, happens when an economy is…

Alaskans were surprised to learn that a new and very different mission statement has been adopted by the Department of Natural Resources. Questions about the mission shift dominated a recent…

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Betty Osborn has been the secretary of the Golden Oldies senior bowling league for 20 years and the sport is a big part of her life, just as it is…

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Freshmen Sariaye Jensen and Morgan Cook delivered solid all-around performances Saturday to lead the UAA gymnastics team in a tri-meet at the University of Denver.

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Sled dogs enjoyed quicker conditions Saturday on the second day of the three-day Raven Electric 10-dog championships at Tozier Track, where packed trails made for faster runs than those recorded…

Dimond scored three goals in the second period to rally for a 5-3 victory over South in the championship game of the Cook Inlet Conference boys hockey tournament Saturday at…

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Jay Hakkinen of Kasilof was one of three Americans in the top 25 in a World Cup biathlon race Saturday in Oslo, Norway.

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UAA racers flexed their muscles Saturday in the Alyeska Cup giant slalom in Girdwood.

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Kikkan Randall skipped a World Cup cross-country race for the first time all season to recover from the flu, Holly Brooks raced for the first time in nearly a month…

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The top-ranked Dimond boys wrapped up a three-game road trip to Fairbanks by posting a 49-29 win against the Lathrop Malemutes Saturday afternoon at Lathrop.

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The Dimond Lynx outshot and outrebounded Wasilla to knock off the top-ranked Warriors 54-47 in the championship game of the Dimond Lady Lynx Prep Shootout, a 16-team girls basketball tournament…

Perfect conditions -- plentiful snow, blue skies, temperatures in the teens, negligible wind -- welcomed skiers on the first day of the UAA Invitational at Kincaid Park.

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When Service senior Jacob Lunsford won his first state wrestling championship Saturday, he did so emphatically with a pin in the closing seconds of the 138-pound final against Wasilla's Nate…

The eighth-ranked UAA women's basketball team needed a second-half comeback Saturday night to avoid a second straight loss on the road.

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Sophomore center Matt Bailey, held to just three goals in his first 20 games this season, scored twice Saturday night to lift UAA to a 3-2 Western Collegiate Hockey Association…

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What little separates the ECHL-leading Alaska Aces and the second-place overall Las Vegas Wranglers is thinner than a skate blade, as illustrated by the three-game series that wrapped with the…

Last winter, readers returning from trips to Juneau raved about a new play they had seen at Perseverance Theatre, "The Blue Bear." For the next couple of weekends, Anchorage theatergoers…

Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney cruised to victory in the Nevada caucuses Saturday night, notching a second straight triumph over a field of rivals suddenly struggling to keep pace.

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The latest meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco in December 2011 featured hundreds of talks about Earth science, some of those relating to Alaska (and some of…

Friday's snowstorm may have deterred rational folk from making the First Friday art openings, but several exhibits should be caught as the weather improves.

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It looked like a painting to me, but I am assured by the American Society of Media Photographers that this is a photograph by Wayde Carroll. Carroll is an editorial…

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More than 3,000 miles from the game action, the community of Dillingham recently decided to officially waive its Sunday ban on alcohol sales at bars and restaurants each Super Bowl…

Four-time champion Lance Mackey is on the hunt for his fifth win Saturday as the 2012 Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race started today in downtown Fairbanks.

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A Brevig Mission man on Wednesday fired a rifle from inside his house into a neighbor's home, missing the people inside by inches, Alaska State Troopers said.

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Fairbanks leaders fear a proposal to relocate Eielson Air Force Base's F-16 squadron to Anchorage will have a drastic economic impact on the Interior, and expect to see the local…

Officials anticipate an increase in construction spending this year in Alaska.

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The Alaska Redistricting Board must redraw three Fairbanks-area House districts and another in the Aleutian chain, a state court judge ruled Friday.

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Laumua "Hamo'' Lesu won the heavyweight main event at Thursday Night at the Fights, stopping Shawn "Smiley'' Smally with a second-round knockout at the Egan Center.

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Battling relentless snow that made for slow conditions Friday at Tozier Track, Dori Hollingsworth mushed to the first-day victory in the Raven Electric 10-dog championships.

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Gabrielle Markel and Kevin Kelly prevailed as course conditions deteriorated but won in very different ways Friday to claim state slalom championships at the Alyeska Cup race series in Girdwood.

Fueled by Henry Yawit's hat trick, Service beat Chugiak 5-1 Friday at the McDonald Center to claim third place in the Cook Inlet Conference boys hockey championships. By doing so,

Hans Karlberg was money from long range Friday for Grace Christian, drilling four 3-pointers in the first quarter and finishing with six in his team's 61-45 victory over Cordova.

The top-ranked Wasilla Warriors made their free throws Friday to march into the championship game of the Dimond Lady Lynx Prep Shootout basketball tournament.

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Annie Rush scored a goal and an assist and Dimond-West racked its second straight tournament shutout Friday to grab the Cook Inlet Conference girls hockey championship.

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Nobody was more relieved to arrive at the state wrestling tournament than Caleb Pempek, a member of the defending state champion Wasilla team who totaled his truck Friday morning on…

And your final score Friday night from Sullivan Arena: J.T. Brown 4, UAA 1. The Seawolves sought to halt their longest losing streak this season, but Minnesota-Duluth's dynamic sophomore winger…

The special teams that have generally served the Alaska Aces so well this season proved their downfall Friday night in a 2-1 ECHL road loss to the Las Vegas Wranglers.

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Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles announced today that they had closed a criminal investigation relating to cyclist Lance Armstrong, nearly two years after a grand jury began probing allegations of…

North Slope oil: $114.84 per barrel, up $5.33…

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A forecast from the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska Anchorage says construction spending should be $7.7 billion in Alaska this year, up 3.3 percent…

Employers added a better-than-expected 243,000 non-farm payroll jobs in January and the unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent, the government said today in a report that put an exclamation point…

Don't come to Anchorage's biggest Super Bowl party expecting to find beer, guacamole and big-screen TVs -- although you might find people there dressed as some of those things. The…

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After opening the Dimond Lady Lynx Prep Shootout with a 34-point win Wednesday, defending tournament champion Wasilla kept things rolling with a 73-33 win over Ketchikan on Thursday at Dimond…

Before this year's Yukon Quest start banquet, Allen Moore asked his wife, 2000 Yukon Quest champion Aliy Zirkle, if she could help him out a little. Last year he drew…

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The Seawolves put on a second-half show on Seattle Pacific's home court to make things close Thursday, but the Falcons did what they always do when UAA visits during the…

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Presumably, UAA and Minnesota-Duluth won't be caught napping this weekend at Sullivan Arena.

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The UAA men's basketball team knew Thursday night's game at the Wells Fargo Sports Complex was an important one against a tough Great Northwest Athletic Conference rival that already owned…

Wasilla will begin its defense of the Class 4A state wrestling title today at Bartlett High, where the best wrestlers from the state's largest schools will begin preliminary matches at…

Dimond wrapped up a sweep of the Cook Inlet Conference regular-season bowling team titles by winning its final matches of the season Thursday at Center Bowl.

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Dimond and South, which played an overtime thriller the last time they clashed, both won semifinals Thursday night to advance to Saturday night's championship showdown in the Cook Inlet Conference's…

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Jay Hakkinen of Kasilof was among three American men to score World Cup biathlon points Thursday in a sprint race in Oslo, Norway.

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Gabrielle Markel and Alex Erickson, a pair of Junior 1 racers for Alyeska Ski Club, won Thursday's weather-challenged slalom, the first of four races in the Alyeska Cup series in…

Kikkan Randall of Anchorage once again helped the U.S. Ski Team make history, although this time she wasn't the leader of the American squad on a cold and windy day…

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Jordan Kremyr's game-winning goal midway through the third period Thursday night earned the ECHL-leading Alaska Aces a 4-2 road victory against the Las Vegas Wranglers and snapped the Aces' season-worst,

Iditarod officials plan to snip one of the most dangerous sections of the Last Great Race from this year's trail. For the first time, the race route will include a…

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North Slope oil: $109.51 per barrel, down $1.25…

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Governor Sean Parnell is proposing a $97
million supplemental budget to cover what he says were
unanticipated increases in delivering state services and programs
for the current year.
The request includes $38 million for legal settlements, $3
million for disaster fu...

A second person has died at an
Anchorage center that allows homeless alcoholics to drink in their
rooms.
The Anchorage Daily News reports Daniel
Worthman died Tuesday at Karluk Manor. Police say a medical
examiner will determine the cause of the 46-year-old man'...

An avalanche has forced the closure of
the Seward Highway in both directions.
The Alaska Department of Transportation says the avalanche
occurred at about 7 a.m. Thursday at the Y intersection of the
Seward and Sterling highways. Traffic is closed in both directions
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An expansion of school choice programs
available to Alaskans is one step closer to becoming a reality, but
a 4-3 vote by the House Education Committee indicates the road
ahead for the bill could be rough.
The state already has 27 charter schools, and students can move

Fairbanks Sewer and Water has agreed to pay $4.5 million in customer refunds for setting rates too high the last decade.

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The graffiti artist who took Facebook stock instead of cash for painting the walls of the social network's first headquarters made a smart bet. His shares should be worth upward…

Newly disclosed details of the millions of dollars flowing into political groups are highlighting not just the scale of donations from corporations and unions but also the secrecy surrounding super…

February! We are one month closer to the growing season. It's been a tough winter so far and I, for one, can't wait for this one to end. I am…

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Backed by 20 points from Amu Aukusitino and 14 from Adam Klie, the Service boys basketball team used a second-half rally to beat Juneau 67-60 in a nonconference game at…

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The Service-East girls hockey team delivered a shocking result Wednesday, and it did it in stunning fashion. Fourth-seeded Service-East beat top-seeded South-Bartlett, 2-1, in the semifinals of the Cook Inlet…

A Canadian energy business announced Wednesday it will pay $1.1 billion to buy the parent company of Enstar Natural Gas Co., the lone distributor of natural gas to tens of…

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The wins have piled up lately for the UAA men's and women's basketball teams, but for the success to continue the Seawolves will have to hurdle significant challenges this week…

Late free throws by Zach Lukan, Louis Page and Wade Ellis powered South to a thrilling 63-60 Cook Inlet Conference boys basketball victory Tuesday over East.

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Facebook made a much-anticipated status update Wednesday: The Internet social network is going public eight years after its computer-hacking CEO Mark Zuckerberg started the service at Harvard University.

North Slope oil: $110.76 per barrel, down $0.87…

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Barreling out of Florida with money and momentum on his side, Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney said today that the bare-knuckled nomination fight thus far has toughened him up for…

Rumor has it there's a big football game coming up Sunday. For many, it will mean nachos and chili and hot wings. But we do things differently in Alaska.

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The Alaska Quake weren't able to figure out the San Diego Sol on Sunday, losing for the second straight day to the fourth-ranked team in the American Basketball Association.

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UAA senior Hanna Johansson was instrumental in two big home wins for the Seawolves last week, and her 40 points and 27 rebounds helped her earn Co-Player of the week…

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Snowboarders from Alaska are experiencing plenty of recent success, with Rosina Mancari and Allison Stassel both notching impressive finishes in snowboardcross events last weekend, and Ryan Stassel set to compete…

Five Dimond players scored in double figures Tuesday, with Ione Fischer and Sierra Afoa notching double-doubles in a 90-32 blowout of host Eagle River in a Cook Inlet Conference girls…

Ryden Hines' 29 points and 12 rebounds paced Dimond in a 69-44 Cook Inlet Conference boys basketball win over host Eagle River on Tuesday.

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Josh Smith became a hometown hockey hero Tuesday night in Eagle River when he scored 39 seconds into double overtime to give Chugiak High a come-from-behind 3-2 victory over East…

Contributions to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's political action committee dropped by more than half in the second half of 2011. Palin announced in October that she would not seek…

Opportunities rarely come more splendid than the ones the Alaska Aces were afforded in overtime Tuesday night on the road against the Ontario Reign. Mark them down as opportunities squandered…

Mitt Romney's victory today in Florida's presidential primary -- the first test of electoral strength in a big, diverse state this year -- establishes him firmly as the overwhelming favorite…

North Slope oil: $111.63 per barrel, down $0.30…

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Supporters of a bill to ban Permanent Fund investments in companies that do business in Iran describe it as a threat to U.S. security. But there are concerns about the…

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Mitt Romney oozed confidence and a defiant Newt Gingrich seemed to acknowledge his momentum had been checked, at least for now, as Florida Republicans today decide who gets the state's…

A new report by the research firm McDowell Group is shedding light on seemingly contradictory North Slope employment figures and an apparent spike in nonresident hire.

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The Alaska Ski for Women 4-K ski race will take place this Sunday at Kincaid Park. Funds raised go toward local charities to fight domestic abuse.

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Regular-season Cook Inlet Conference boys hockey champion Dimond predictably cruised past Bartlett in the opening round of the conference tournament Monday to seize a berth in the state championships, but…

Artist Callie Bellon doesn't know what draws her to paint dead animals. "Everybody asks me for an explanation of what it means," she said. "It's just carcasses."

Records show that Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell's first state-sponsored overseas trip cost $20,800. Parnell was away for over two weeks last fall, visiting Israel and several European countries.

North Slope oil: $111.93 per barrel, down $0.83…

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When two clinics opened for Medicare
patients in Anchorage last year, they were initially flooded with
patients.
But the Anchorage Daily News reports demand
has tapered off and clinic officials are beginning to wonder where
the rest of the Medicare patients have gone...

A Russian tanker that delivered 1.3
million gallons of fuel to Nome, and Coast Guard cutter that broke
ice for the tanker, have reached open water.
Vitus Marine LLC
says the Renda and the Healy broke free of ice in the Bering Sea on
Sunday afternoon after spending m...

Anchorage police say a suspect in a
weekend stabbing has turned himself in.
The stabbing occurred early Sunday morning in an east Anchorage
neighborhood after a man pounded on his neighbor's door, saying he
needed help.
The suspect has been identified as 21-yea...

House leadership is seeking a legal
opinion on what "substantially similar" means, as it pertains to
a proposed ballot initiative that would revive Alaska's coastal
management program.
But it's not clear the House will take the lead in considering

A Senate committee has advanced
legislation that would increase education funding in Alaska.
The measure, SB171, would increase the base student allocation
by $125 the first year, $130 the second year and $135 the third
year. It is aimed at providing school districts grea...

In 2008, Barack Obama's opponents worked hard to raise suspicions about the Illinois U.S. senator with the funny name and unusual background. Some said he was foreign-born. Some said he…

Young Anchorage actor Ahmaogak Sweeney joined hundreds of Alaskans for a special preview screening of Universal Pictures "Big Miracle," the first modern major movie shot entirely in the state. What…

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Gabrielle Markel, a Junior 1 skier for Alyeska Ski Club, placed 28th in the slalom and a pair of Junior 2 skiers had top-40 results Sunday on the final day…

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Christian Taveau covered an eight-mile course at Tozier Track in 23 minutes, 28 seconds, on Sunday to claim the eight-dog class in the Norma Rasmussen Memorial point race sponsored by…

Dylan Watts and Becca Rorabaugh, who both ski on the APU Nordic Team, claimed the men's and women's 30-kilometer victories, respectively, in Sunday's Pia's Classic at Kincaid Park.

Girdwood's Keegan Messing slipped to seventh place after Sunday's freeskate at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in San Jose, Calif.

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It wasn't the mushers, or even the dogs, who had objections to almost 50 below zero temperatures. It was their trucks.

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If recent history holds, the top three seeds in the Cook Inlet Conference boys hockey tournament and the top seed in the girls tournament shouldn't have much trouble in their…

A tumble on the final jump cost Wasilla's Gregory Peck a gold medal Sunday at the Winter X Games, but Peck slid across the finish line in time to pocket…

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Some months ago, a temp employee accused one of our managers of hitting on her. We pulled the manager in for questioning. He absolutely denied it.

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The Alaska Aces have been saddled with a three-game ECHL losing streak for just the second time this hockey season. The Stockton Thunder completed a three-game sweep of the visiting…

Cim Smyth came from behind to win the Tustumena 200 sled dog race today on the Kenai Peninsula, while up north in the Valley, Anjanette Steer claimed the Northern Lights…

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The San Diego Sol showed why they are one of the American Basketball Association's top teams with a 130-91 win over the Alaska Quake on Saturday at Begich Middle School.

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A seemingly endless parade of Service wrestlers made their way to the championship mat Saturday at the Cook Inlet Conference tournament, where the Cougars participated in 11 of 14 finals…

The UAA women's basketball team won its fifth game in a row Saturday, crushing Central Washington 80-48 in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference game at the Wells Fargo Sports Complex.

The UAA men's basketball team will return home today as road scholars. The Seawolves downed Central Washington 82-65 behind Taylor Rohde's 31 points to claim their fourth straight victory, all…

UAA gets big credit for staging a comeback in dire circumstances Saturday night. And big demerits for putting itself in straits that required rallying.

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If you had seen her Saturday at Moose's Tooth, eating pizza and drinking beer, you probably never would have guessed that 5-foot-2 Angela Candage-Parra had just come from a gym…

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As expected, there will be fewer halibut available for fishermen to catch this year -- an 18 percent reduction to 33 million pounds, split among fisheries along the West Coast,

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Harry and Brigid Dodge's efforts to reduce the environmental impact of their business have won them several awards. This month, their business, Kodiak Treks, was recertified by Adventure Green Alaska,

The difficulty and uncertainty in predicting natural gas resources was underscored last week when the Energy Information Administration released a report containing sharply lower estimates in the Lower 48.

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Janice Tower continued her dominance while Josh Chelf, a relative newcomer to bike racing, edged veteran racers John Lackey and Jamey Stull to claim victory Saturday in the third race…

On a fast track, in sub-zero temperatures, Alea Robinson guided her seven-dog team to first place in the eight-mile division of Junior Alaskan Sled Dog and Racing Association's points race…

All four Alaska women finished the first slalom of the Western Region Elite FIS Tech Series at Snowbird, Utah, on Saturday, despite a difficult course that knocked out more than…

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Callan Chythlook-Sifsof grabbed eighth place in women's snowboardcross Saturday at the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colo.

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Soldotna's Bree Mucha and Grace Christian's Daniel Serventi each claimed individual victories Friday at the Region III cross-country ski meet at Colony High, where the Grace Christian girls and Soldotna…

Chugiak's Isaac Lammers and South's Marion Woods were winners Saturday at a prep skiathlon at Kincaid Park. The Service boys claimed a team victory in the event, and Woods' win…

Annie Rush's third-period goal was a game-winner Saturday, giving the Dimond-West girls hockey team a 2-1 win over Chugiak-Eagle River in a Cook Inlet Conference game at the McDonald Center.

Five different players notched goals for South on Saturday, and the Wolverines slipped past Service 5-3 in a Cook Inlet Conference boys hockey game at Ben Boeke Arena.

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Kyla Dinkel's double-double and Alyssa Hutchins' 21 points spearheaded Wasilla's 52-29 romp over Kenai in a Saturday game at Wasilla.

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Jared Turner led 10 Colony scorers Saturday to propel the Knights to a 79-33 boys basketball victory over visiting Skyview.

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The Alaska Aces on Saturday night suffered a slight they have not endured in three months -- a second consecutive loss in regulation.

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His moves on the mat are so fluid and without hesitation, it's difficult to tell West High wrestler Paul Tandy is blind, his disability only becoming evident when the whistle…

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Born in San Francisco in 1963, Preston Singletary has lived in Seattle almost ever since. But Alaska has a claim on him. His maternal grandmother was full-blood Tlingit from a…

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One of the prettiest places in Southeast Alaska has felt some of nature's most violent behavior.

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The announcement last week that Sa Chen, among the top winners of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, will present a recital at the University of Alaska next month certainly…

News on hires or promotions of employees to senior or midlevel professional or supervisory positions…

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When Service wrestler Stephen Ellis is preparing for a match, he walks around the gym like a predator stalking his prey, occasionally stopping to bounce on the balls of his…

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For the second day in a row, Gabrielle Markel of the Alyeska Ski Club led a group of Alaska skiers at the Western Region Elite FIS Tech Series in Park…

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Alex Jackstadt scored four goals, three of them in a row, and assisted on two others in East's 9-1 rout of West in Cook Inlet Conference hockey action Friday at…

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Keegan Messing of Girdwood skated to fifth place in the men's short program Friday night at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in San Jose, Calif.

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Anetelea Opetaia earned a three-round decision over Corderoe Gonzales in the main event at Thursday Night at the Fights.

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