MARY PEMBERTON

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Crews aboard two aircraft flew over an oil drilling ship Tuesday that went aground in a severe Alaska storm and saw no sign that the vessel was leaking fuel or that its hull had been breached.

40th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race begins in Alaska 03/05/12 - 1:30am

WILLOW, Alaska — Fans lined the starting chute and filled the cold Alaskan air with cheers for their favorite mushers — some leaning forward to exchange high-fives — as 66 teams took to the trail Sunday in the official start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The mushers and their dog teams will spend about the next eight days crossing nearly a thousand miles of Alaska wilderness in a sled, all trying to be the first musher to reach the old gold rush town of Nome.

Tanker moored off Nome, gearing up fuel delivery 01/15/12 - 1:10am

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A Russian tanker carrying much-needed fuel to Nome moored less than a half mile from the town's iced-in harbor Saturday evening, starting final preparations for delivering the diesel fuel and gasoline, the Coast Guard said. The crew of the 370-foot tanker Renda is working to ensure the safe transfer of the 1.3-million gallons of fuel through a hose laid on top of the ice to the harbor, Coast Guard spokesman Kip Wadlow said. The U.S Coast Guard Cutter Healy, which cleared a path through hundreds of miles of Bering Sea ice for the tanker, is moored nearby. "We were a

Man dies at Alaska center for street alcoholics 01/04/12 - 12:45am

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A man who was slurring his speech and appeared intoxicated was found dead on New Year's Day at a controversial center in Anchorage where chronic street alcoholics are allowed to keep drinking. The center has been under fire for its unconventional approach to dealing with alcoholism in Anchorage, where advocates have been looking for new ways to help homeless alcoholics after more than 20 people — most of them severely intoxicated — died outdoors over a 12-month period in 2009 and 2010. Employees checked on 54-year-old John Kort several times Sunday after a visitor not

Star college runner passes out under tree in Alaskan woods, both feet frozen, amputated 12/07/11 - 2:05am

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A campus police report provides new details about why an All-American cross-country runner from the University of Alaska Anchorage spent three days alone in the freezing woods and had to have his f

Woman convicted of child abuse for punishing son in 'Dr. Phil' hot sauce incident 08/23/11 - 11:00pm

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A woman who squirted hot sauce into the mouth of her adopted Russian son for lying about getting in trouble in school was convicted Tuesday of misdemeanor child abuse in what prosecutors said was a ploy to get on the "Dr. Phil" TV show. Jessica Beagley, 36, made a videotape of how she punished the boy and submitted it to the show. The tape shows Beagley yelling at the crying boy, then tipping his chin up and pouring hot sauce in his mouth. Beagley then had the screaming boy stand in a cold shower for sword-fighting with pencils in school.

Alaska moves toward legalized trapping of roaming black bears BY MARY PEMBERTON 10/09/10 - 1:03am

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