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2+ hour, 29+ min ago   (382+ words) The age-old debate between the Beatles and the Rolling Stones will take the stage this fall when tribute bands Abbey Road and Satisfaction – The International Rolling Stones Show bring “Beatles vs. Stones – A Musical Showdown” to the Rose State Performing…...

1+ hour, 35+ min ago   (112+ words) Unity RCMP responded to two reports involving injured animals between July 14 and 20, including a moose struck by a vehicle and a kitten found near Landis. Police received a report of a vehicle colliding with a moose near Evesham. No injuries…...

1+ hour, 37+ min ago   (276+ words) BOCA RATON, FL — Think twice before tossing breadcrumbs to pigeons or leaving scraps behind for iguanas in Boca Raton. Boca Raton is considering a new local law that would make it illegal to intentionally feed nuisance animals, including iguanas, rats,…...

5+ hour, 17+ min ago   (379+ words) Before school starts next month, Anchorage School District families can get free school supplies at an event July 31, and free clothes at another event the next day. District employees, volunteers and vendors will distribute backpacks full of pencils, paper and…...

6+ hour, 2+ min ago   (393+ words) Cornell has updated its Community Living Standards to include a clause banning the processing of wild animals in communal kitchens. The update follows a September incident in which students skinned and butchered a legally hunted bear in a shared kitchen…...

14+ hour, 1+ min ago   (1051+ words) Anchorage Historic Preservation Commission members believe a number of historic and cultural sites along Turnagain Arm may be “irreversibly affected or destroyed” if the state’s Safer Seward Highway project proceeds as planned. A May 21 letter from the Municipality of Anchorage’s…...

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1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (498+ words) Even routine outdoor trips can turn serious in an instant. Authorities say a woman on a hike above Anchorage's Bear Valley was attacked by a brown bear after it unexpectedly appeared from the treeline near her group, which included another…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (567+ words) Five months ago, Alayna Gibson, Holland Gillis and Sylvia Torkelson were all crammed onto a single snowmobile, rocketing across a wide snowfield toward Mount Erebus in Antarctica. The three 20‑somethings had met only months earlier at McMurdo Station in Antarctica,…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (691+ words) Last week I withdrew from the race for Alaska’s seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. What a privilege, honor, and joy it was to run. I ran to serve people of Alaska with a campaign rooted in the ethic…...