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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, SEPT. 3-4 - In this Aug. 22, 2016 photo, Ariel Cunningham, the new manager of the Fairbanks North Star Borough Animal Shelter, feeds an American Buff goose in Fairbanks, Alaska/ Growing up in Webster, N.H., in the 1990s, Cunningham had no brothers or sisters. Her playmates were her family's pets--thirteen dogs and five cats. (Eric Engman/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner via AP)

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New shelter manager has soft spot for strays

FAIRBANKS — Growing up in Webster, New Hampshire, in the 1990s, Ariel Cunningham had no brothers or sisters.…

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Low turnout closes dog mushing museum

FAIRBANKS — The owner of a Fairbanks museum showcasing dog mushing has closed due to low turnout, leaving…

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Fairbanks police ID officer involved in fatal shooting

FAIRBANKS — Fairbanks police have released the name of an officer who shot and killed a man who…

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Permanent fund board pitched on tax credit investment

JUNEAU — Gov. Bill Walker’s administration is pitching the board overseeing Alaska’s oil wealth nest egg on a…

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Native groups criticize fair board over rappers’ ejection

FAIRBANKS — Alaska Native organizations are calling on an Interior Alaska state fair board to address issues of…

In this July 7, 2016 photo, police tape hangs from a hand rail near where two people were killed on the Ship Creek Trail in downtown Anchorage, Alaska. The double homicide is among nine unsolved cases this year in which people have been found dead in Anchorage parks, trails and on isolated streets. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

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Unsolved homicides put people on edge in Anchorage

ANCHORAGE — A rash of unsolved outdoor homicides in Alaska’s largest city is putting residents on edge. Altogether,…

After the crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 on Sept. 4, 1971, recovery teams stayed in touch with handheld and short-distance radios that linked them to Juneau.

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The disaster that taught us to fly safely: 45 years after Flight 1866

In the first week of September, 45 years ago, Robert Mottram flew by helicopter to the Chilkat Mountains…

Image courtesy of PRL Logistics and Straightline Aviation  This computer-generated illustration shows Lockheed Martin's LMH-1 hybrid aircraft, which transportation company PRL Logistics plans to base in Kenai in 2019.

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Hybrid aircraft to be based in Kenai

KENAI — By 2019, people looking south across Kenai’s river flats or standing on its beach might occasionally…

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Southeast Alaska school closing down over lack of students

PETERSBURG — A school on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska that saw only a handful of…

Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux, R-Anchorage

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APOC will wait to hear fundraising complaint against Anchorage lawmaker

The Alaska Public Offices Commission will wait at least two weeks to consider a complaint filed by the…

This Wednesday Aug. 31 photo provided by Alaska State Troopers shows the wreckage of a Cessna 208 Caravan, strewn from the bare earth at right to the left center, involved in a deadly midair collision with another small plane over a remote area near the village of Russian Mission in western Alaska. A total of five people died in the Wednesday morning crash. Rough terrain complicated efforts to recover the bodies of the four Alaskans and a Montana man who died.

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Rough terrain complicates efforts to recover bodies in crash

ANCHORAGE — Rough terrain complicated efforts to recover the bodies of four Alaskans and a Montana man who…

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Man shot, killed by Fairbanks police ID’d

FAIRBANKS — Authorities have identified a Fairbanks man who was fatally shot by police after they say he…

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Feds provide money for sanitation in villages

ANCHORAGE — Alaska’s rural communities are set to receive $27 million in federal funds to help improve sanitation.…

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Alaska GOP chair suggests new election for state House seat

JUNEAU — The chairman of Alaska’s Republican Party has suggested that another election be held in a state…

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Survey: More adults use marijuana, don’t think it’s risky

NEW YORK — Marijuana use is becoming more accepted among U.S. adults as states loosen pot laws, new…

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Sitka scrambles to act after finding moderate landslide risk

SITKA — Sitka officials are working on public safety issues after finding one area of the city is…

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State analyzing higher claims for expanded Alaska Medicaid

JUNEAU — Costs for Alaska’s expanded Medicaid program have exceeded first-year estimates by roughly $30 million so far,…

Marijuana sits in a bowl from which it is packaged and sold to customers, at The Station, a medical and retail cannabis dispensary, in Boulder, Colorado., Thursday, Aug. 11.

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Alaska attorney general: Marijuana social clubs illegal

JUNEAU — Alaska’s attorney general said Wednesday that marijuana social clubs are illegal, addressing what had been a…

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The Latest: Troopers say no survivors in western Alaska midair crash

ANCHORAGE — All those on board two small planes died in a midair collision Wednesday in western Alaska, state…

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Police ID 2nd man found dead in park

ANCHORAGE — Anchorage police have released the name of a second man who was found dead in a…