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FILE - A U.S. squad armed with guns and hand grenades closes in on Japanese holdouts entrenched in dugouts during World War II on Attu Island, Alaska, in June 1943. (U.S. Army via AP, File)

Descendant of last native leader of Alaska island demands Japanese reparations for 1942 invasion

By Mark Thiessen and Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

This undated image provided by Alaska Gear Company shows Esther Keim dropping frozen turkeys to residents in rural Alaska. (Alaska Gear Company via AP)

‘It’s a bird! It’s a plane!’ In Alaska, it’s both, with a pilot tossing turkeys to rural homes

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In this March 16, 2015, volunteers help raise the Iditarod finishers banner at the burled arch finish line in Nome, Alaska. Nome Mayor John Handeland said the arch collapsed Saturday, April 27, 2024, likely from wood rot. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)

Iditarod says new burled arch will be in place for ‘25 race after current finish line arch collapses

By Mark Thiessen - Associated Press

Alaska Department of Transportation program manager Ryan Marlow demonstrates the agency's robotic dog in Anchorage, Alaska, on March 26, 2024. The device will be camouflaged as a coyote or fox to ward off migratory birds and other wildlife at Alaska's second largest airport, the DOT said. (Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News via AP)

Robot disguised as a coyote or fox will scare wildlife away from runways at Alaska airport

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Musher Dutch Johnson, a kennel manager at The August Foundation for Alaska Racing Dogs, runs a dog team on Dee Lake in Chugiak, Alaska, Jan. 23, 2024. The lead dogs are illuminated for safety. Alaska’s wild spaces are getting more crowded and dangerous for Alaska’s four-legged athletes training for the Iditarod, an annual sled dog race that celebrates the official state sport. (Bill Roth/Anchorage Daily News via AP)

Alaska’s Iditarod dogs get neon visibility harnesses after 5 were fatally hit while training

By Mark Thiessen - Associated Press

Denali Brehmer stands at her arraignment in the Anchorage Correctional Center in Anchorage, Alaska, on June 9, 2019. Brehmer, 24, was sentenced earlier this week to 99 years in prison for orchestrating the death of a developmentally disabled woman in a murder-for-hire plot, hoping to cash in on a $9 million offer from a Midwestern man purporting to be a millionaire.(Bill Roth/Anchorage Daily News via AP, File)

Alaska woman gets 99 years for orchestrating catfished murder-for-hire plot in friend’s death

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Brian Steven Smith sits in a courtroom while waiting for his arraignment to start in Anchorage, Alaska, Oct. 16, 2019. The double murder trial of Smith, a South Africa native accused of killing two Alaska Native women will begin this week, more than four years after a woman provided police with a digital memory card that authorities said contained images and video of one of the killings. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)

A woman stole a memory card from a truck. The gruesome footage is now key to an Alaska murder trial

By Mark Thiessen - Associated Press

Isil Mico takes a photo of her sister-in-law Oznur Mico in front of Snowzilla, a snowman measuring more than 20 feet tall, in Anchorage, Alaska on Jan. 10, 2024. A recent storm dropped nearly 16 inches of snow on Anchorage, bringing the seasonal total to over 103 inches. It’s the earliest Alaska’s largest city has reached the 100-inch mark. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)

‘Pandemic of snow’ in Anchorage sets a record for the earliest arrival of 100 inches of snow

By Mark Thiessen - Associated Press

An outdoor tent city for the homeless is seen July 26, 2023, across from the city's historic railroad depot in downtown Anchorage, Alaska. Officials in Alaska's largest city are scrambling to find enough shelter for homeless people before the first snowfall usually in October, after the city's mass shelter held in at the "Sullivan Arena"was closed. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)

Anchorage scrambles to find enough housing for the homeless before the Alaska winter sets in

By Mark Thiessen - Associated Press

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, administers the House oath of office to Rep. Mary Peltola, D-Alaska, standing next to her husband Eugene "Buzzy" Peltola Jr., center, during a ceremonial swearing-in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. Peltola's husband Eugene has died in an airplane crash in Alaska, her office said Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Rep. Mary Peltola’s husband dies in plane crash in Alaska

By Mark Thiessen - Associated Press

A supporter for the transgender community holds up a flag in front of counter-protesters at the city's Gay Pride Festival, Oct. 12, 2019, in Atlanta. Courts nationwide are delivering a mixed verdict on the future of state laws restricting gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth, as legal battles ramp up over the historic wave of bans enacted in 2023. (AP Photo/Robin Rayne, File)

Alaska board of education votes to ban transgender girls from competing on high school girls teams

By Mark Thiessen - Associated Press

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan speaks at the University of Maryland, May 11, 2023, in College Park, Md. Regan said he fully supports his agency's decision to block a proposed gold and copper mine in Alaska's salmon-rich Bristol Bay in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard, File)

EPA head says he’s ‘proud’ of decision to block Alaska mine and protect salmon-rich Bristol Bay

By Mark Thiessen - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by Meredith Barney shows her daughter, Saria Hildabrand. Hildabrand's husband, U.S. Army soldier Zarrius Ray Hildabrand, faces murder and evidence tampering charges stemming from her death earlier in August 2023, and is set to be back in court Thursday, Aug. 17, according to court records. (Courtesy Meredith Barney via AP)

U.S. Army soldier accused of killing his wife in Alaska faces court hearing

By Becky Bohrer - Associated Press

This photo provided by North Slope Borough Search and Rescue shows an aerial view of a shallow lake where a helicopter crashed on Alaska's North Slope near Utqiagvik, Alaska, on July 20, 2023. A helicopter that crashed on Alaska’s remote and vast North Slope in July, killing three state scientists and the pilot, stopped sending flight-status data to a real-time tracking system as it passed over the southeastern shoreline of an Arctic lake, according to a preliminary report on the crash released Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. (North Slope Borough Search and Rescue via AP, File)

Federal report sheds new light on Alaska helicopter crash that killed 3 scientists, pilot

By Mark Thiessen - Associated Press

A female black bear and two cubs look for food inside a tent on June 29, 2022, at Centennial Park in Anchorage, Alaska. The campground was abruptly chosen by Mayor Dave Bronson as a sanctioned area for camping by people experiencing homelessness, despite its proximity to bears and its relative lack of resources as compared to the previous mass care site at the Sullivan Arena. (Loren Holmes/Anchorage Daily News via AP, File)

Anchorage homeless face cold and bears. A plan to offer one-way airfare out reveals a bigger crisis

By Mark Thiessen - Associated Press