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Lease sale in Alaska petroleum reserve draws modest interest

ANCHORAGE (AP) — A federal sale of oil leases in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska has again drawn a…

Tangled up in Blue: Up in smoke!

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Tangled up in Blue: Up in smoke!

My wood stove stole my freedom. The independence I cultivated through years of working late nights in return…

This undated photo provided by America’s Test Kitchen in September 2018 shows a deep dish apple pie in Brookline, Mass. (Carl Tremblay/America’s Test Kitchen via AP)

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Healthier Holidays

Healthier Holidays

A rendering of the proposed Soldotna Regional Sports Complex field house. The Soldotna City Council will introduce legislation Wednesday to ask the voters if the city should borrow $10 million in the form of a bond to build the field house. (City of Soldotna)

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Soldotna to vote on bond proposal for field house

Correction: This article has been edited to reflect the correct date of the special election, March 5, 2019.…

President Donald J. Trump, joined by Vice President Mike Pence, participates in a discussion with Governors-Elect on Thursday in the Cabinet Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo | Joyce N. Boghosian)

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Dunleavy sees Trump as ‘strong partner’ after meeting

He also met with the Interior Secretary.

Recycling Bin: Walk green

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Recycling Bin: Walk green

Walk green

Michael Cohen, left, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, leaves federal court after his sentencing in New York, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018. Cohen was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for an array of crimes that included arranging the payment of hush money to two women that he says was done at the direction of Trump. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

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‘Dirty deeds’: Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen gets 3 years in prison

NEW YORK — Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s one-time fixer, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison…

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Kenai Chamber supports Alaska LNG in Nikiski

The Kenai Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center has joined several other local organizations and communities in supporting…

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NEW YORK — Kane Brown wasn’t sure he was going to make it. But there was one thing…

(Simon & Schuster)

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A beagle finds his forever home with royalty in ‘His Royal Dogness’

Wow, you’re getting so big!

(Lions Gate)

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Now Playing: ‘The Spy Who Dumped Me’ — for when blockbusters and indies don’t appeal

You would think with streaming video being the norm and the fact that there are a million different…

77 years of conservation in our neighborhood

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77 years of conservation in our neighborhood

By LEAH ESKELIN

Wood burns during a Kenai National Wildlife Refuge prescribed burning in February 2018. (Photo by Erin Thompson/Peninsula Clarion)

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Refuge continues slash pile burning

The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge is conducting slash pile along the Refuge boundary near Sterling.

Republican Bart LeBon points to a vote tally board with his campaign manager Brittany Hartmann during a election recount at the Department of Elections’ Juneau office on Friday, Nov. 30. LeBon is challenging the handling of four ballots as part of an ongoing legal fight over the Alaska House District 1 seat in Fairbanks. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

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LeBon asks for recount win to be upheld by Alaska court

JUNEAU — The Republican candidate in a disputed Alaska House race is challenging the handling of four ballots…

Fishing vessel sinks in Seward Harbor

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Fishing vessel sinks in Seward Harbor

A fishing vessel in the Seward Harbor has leaked an unknown amount of marine diesel and other petroleum…

In this March 9 file photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the aurora borealis displays above Ice Camp Skate in the Beaufort Sea during Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2018. Scientists are seeing surprising melting in Earth’s polar regions at times they don’t expect, like winter, and in places they don’t expect, like eastern Antarctica. (MC 2nd Class Micheal H. Lee/U.S. Navy via AP, File)

Environment

Scary warming at poles showing up at weird times, places

WASHINGTON — Scientists are seeing surprising melting in Earth’s polar regions at times they don’t expect, like winter,…

In this Jan. 22, 2010 file photo, a cow moose walks through the brush in Noorvik, Alaska. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Crime & Justice

Alaska moose poacher fined $100,000, sentenced to jail

ANCHORAGE — An Alaska man who poached three moose and left most of the meat to rot has…

In this Jan. 16, 2017, file photo, then Rep.-elect Gary Knopp sits in his office at the Alaska Capitol in Juneau, Alaska. Republican state lawmaker Knopp is seeking to create a bipartisan majority coalition in the House after leaving a fragile GOP caucus that he said was “doomed to fail.” Knopp says he wanted to start talks on the potential creation of a bipartisan coalition, with just weeks before the start of the new legislative session. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, File)

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Republican leaves GOP caucus

JUNEAU — A Republican state lawmaker is seeking to create a bipartisan majority coalition in the House after…

(Photo/Joshua L. Jones, Athens Banner-Herald)

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Pioneer Potluck: About an abducted Christmas tree

CHRISTMAS 1979

In this Dec. 1 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks to media at the G20 summit, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

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Top House Dems raise prospect of impeachment, jail for Trump

WASHINGTON — Top House Democrats on Sunday raised the prospect of impeachment or almost-certain prison time for President…