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  • Petr Kellner

    Federal government releases probe into Alaska heli-skiing crash that killed the billionaire who was the Czech Republic’s richest man

    By Becky Bohrer, Mark Thiessen, and others
  • Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Michael ReganPolitics

    Top environmental chief ‘proud’ to block proposed gold and copper mine in Alaska’s salmon-rich Bristol Bay

    By Mark Thiessen and The Associated Press
  • Maui wildfiresEnvironment

    Maui wildfire devastates crown jewels of local heritage: ‘All the places that are tourist areas, that are Hawaiian history, are gone, and that can’t be replaced’

    By Mark Thiessen, Audrey McAvoy, and others
  • In this photo provided by Christopher Hayden, a light baby blue spiral resembling a galaxy appears amid the aurora for a few minutes in the Alaska skies near Fairbanks, Saturday, April 15, 2023. The spiral was formed when excess fuel that had been released from a SpaceX rocket that launched from California about three hours earlier turned to ice, and then the water vapor reflected the sunlight in the upper atmosphere. (Christopher Hayden via AP)Tech

    SpaceX launch leaves mysterious blue spiral amid northern lights in Alaska night sky

    By Mark Thiessen and The Associated Press
  • MooseEnvironment

    ‘It’s not every day you get a moose walking into a building’: Alaska hospital lobby’s greenery attracts hungry animal

    By Mark Thiessen and The Associated Press
  • In this screenshot provided on March 7, 2023, TikTok user Hazel Thayer speaks out in a TikTok video against an oil drilling project that’s proposed on Alaska’s North Slope. A social media campaign is urging President Joe Biden to reject the project. The #stopwillow campaign, mostly on TikTok, has tallied more than 50 million views. Its popularity reflects the unease that young Americans feel about climate change and their concern that Biden will not keep his campaign pledge to curtail oil drilling. (Hazel Thayer via AP)Environment

    A TikTok campaign against an Alaska oil project has racked up 50 million views: ‘It’s just so blatantly bad for the planet’

    By Mark Thiessen, Isabella O'Malley, and others
  • FILE – Martin Buser drives his team off of the Takotna River and into the Takotna, Alaska, checkpoint on the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on March 11, 2009. Only 33 mushers will participate in the ceremonial start of the Iditarod on Saturday, March 4, the smallest field ever to take their dog teams nearly 1,000 miles (1,609 kilometers) over Alaska’s unforgiving wilderness. This year’s lineup is smaller even than the 34 mushers who lined up for the very first race in 1973. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File)Success

    The world’s iconic Iditarod dog sled race has the fewest competitors ever because its $50,000 prize isn’t enough to keep up with inflation

    By Mark Thiessen and The Associated Press
  • Tara SweeneyPolitics

    ‘Your husband is a polar bear, skinny’: FEMA fires translators who sent gibberish to Alaskan Native Americans after a typhoon

    By Mark Thiessen and The Associated Press
  • Bruce Gideos, floor manager at Pierre’s Place, in Chesterfield, N.H., prints out Powerball tickets on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022. The Powerball jackpot climbed over $1.5 billion on Thursday after no one won Wednesday’s drawing. (Kristopher Radder/The Brattleboro Reformer via AP)Finance

    Powerball’s $1.5 billion jackpot is driving lottery envy in the 5 states where people can’t buy tickets

    By Kim Chandler, Mark Thiessen, and others
  • Michael DunleavyPolitics

    Alaska dropped over $3,000 in each resident’s bank account on Tuesday

    By Mark Thiessen and The Associated Press
  • Maria Olmedo-Malagon, Program Manager, 2020 Census Integrated Communications Contract, U.S. Census Bureau speaks during the event.Politics

    Everything you need to know before the 2020 Census starts next week

    By Mark Thiessen, Mike Schneider, and others