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Life in the Pedestrian Lane: Perspective on an Alaskan winter

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Life in the Pedestrian Lane: Perspective on an Alaskan winter

The inches accumulated a little at a time are easily removed.

Alaska Voices: Statewide affordable pre-K is critical

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Alaska Voices: Statewide affordable pre-K is critical

Alaska’s early care and learning sector account for $343 million in annual spending

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, arrives in the Senate where she has said she will vote for a resolution to annul President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the southwest border, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 14, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Senate rebukes Trump on border emergency

Sen. Lisa Murkowski joined the contingent of Republicans in support of the resolution

Larry Persily gives a presentation at the Kenai/Soldotna joint chamber luncheon on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)

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Economic analysis on LNG project expected soon

Dunleavy said one reason for attending the conference was to gauge investor interest in the project

Minister’s Message: Childlikeness vs. Childishness

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Minister’s Message: Childlikeness vs. Childishness

In childhood we must possess a quality that we can lose as we age

Bjørn Olson. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Carbon offsets offer market-based solution to impact of fuel consumption

In early March, Alaskans Know Climate Change purchased carbon offsets for the Kachemak Bay Conservation Center. This is…

Peter Kaiser (9) checks in at the finish line, Wednesday, March 13, 2019, in Nome, Alaska, after winning the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. It’s the first Iditarod victory for Kaiser in his 10th attempt. (Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News via AP)

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Alaskan Native Pete Kaiser wins Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race

Kaiser, who is Yupik, is from the southwest Alaska community of Bethel

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Alaska Voices: Celebrating the Alaskan spirit

The Last Great Race reflects the Alaska spirit within everyone who calls this state home

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Larson holds her own in a fun, action-packed ‘Captain Marvel’

It’s very typical Marvel 4-quadrant entertainment — designed to be unchallenging and escapist

Voices of the Peninsula: Job losses are personal. I should know.

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Voices of the Peninsula: Job losses are personal. I should know.

I’m preparing to tell you something very personal and intensely painful.

Pioneer Potluck: My trip with Bernie to Denver and about being Irish

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Pioneer Potluck: My trip with Bernie to Denver and about being Irish

This week’s recipes include pineapple pie, sausage gravy and potato dumplings

One dead after avalanche

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One dead after avalanche

An Anchorage man has died in an avalanche while backcountry snowboarding near Cooper Landing.

Owner/driver JT Hawkins in his #13 car sporting the checkered flag. (Photo provided by Kenai Peninsula Ice Race Association)

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Ice Racing report: Ice racing turns to water racing

It was an extremely wet day of ice racing for the Kenai Peninsula Ice Race Association on Sunday,…

A game camera photo of an ocelot from the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge website.

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Life on a South Texas refuge

Did you know that more than 10 percent of the international border between the United States and Mexico…

Southcentral hoops tourney ready to make noise in Seward

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Southcentral hoops tourney ready to make noise in Seward

It may seem quiet this time of year at the end of the Alaska Railroad in the small…

Ice racing report: Time to honor the old-timers

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Ice racing report: Time to honor the old-timers

Slipping and sliding, bumping and rubbing. That is what it’s all about on the track with the Kenai…

Defending champion Joar Leifseth Ulsom is greeted by local fan Ole Andersson during the ceremonial start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Saturday in Anchorage. (AP Photo/Michael Dinneen)                                Defending champion Joar Leifseth Ulsom is greeted by local fan Ole Andersson during the ceremonial start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Saturday, March 2, 2019 in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Michael Dinneen)

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Defending Iditarod champ remains self-proclaimed ‘goofball’

WILLOW — Joar Leifseth Ulsom may not be flashy or brash, but he has sled cred.

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Top lawmakers don’t see support for Dunleavy tax shift

JUNEAU — Alaska legislative leaders signaled concern on Friday with two provisions of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s budget that…

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Alaska mayor vetoes LGBTQ anti-discrimination protections

FAIRBANKS (AP) — The mayor of Alaska’s second-largest city vetoed a new local law Friday that gave sweeping…

Defending champion Joar Lefseth Ulsom runs his team down Fourth Ave during the ceremonial start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Saturday in Anchorage. (AP Photo/Michael Dinneen)

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Big crowds cheer kick off of Alaska’s famed Iditarod race

ANCHORAGE — Big crowds converged on Alaska’s largest city Saturday as hundreds of dogs and their humans kicked…