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Anchorage, Alaska is located in Anchorage County. Zip codes in Anchorage, AK include 99521, 99520, and 99510. The median home price in Anchorage is $284,900. More Anchorage information.

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2 hrs ago | APRN

Adaka s Seafood Processing Equipment Sold as Unit

The equipment from Adak's fish processing plant was auctioned off in one piece Tuesday morning.

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6 hrs ago | Anchorage Daily News

Eagle River shoplifting suspect caught after shooting door, ditching pants

When Walmart employees confronted an Eagle River man trying to shoplift, he ran to a locked door, fired his gun at it, then ran outside and took his pants and shoes off in a nearby neighborhood, according to Anchorage police.

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10 hrs ago | Hotel News Resource

Maestro Selected by 10 Hotel Companies; Continues To Be Preferred PMS for Independents

Growing High Touch Resorts and Multi-Property Groups Select Maestro PMS to Expand Operations, Increase Profitability and Maximize Productivity at 22 Properties NORTHWIND , provider of Maestro Enterprise Property Management hotel software and reservation software solutions for the industry's leading independent hotels, resorts, and multi-property ... (more)

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15 hrs ago | Gawker

Drunk Alaska Man Mauled After Feeding BBQ to Black Bear

On Saturday, Jesus Mabalot, a 38-year-old resident of Anchorage, Alaska, went to his church's picnic at a state park campground.

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19 hrs ago | Tri-cityherald.com

Baked Alaska: Unusual heat wave hits 49th state

With temperatures topping 80 degrees in Anchorage, and higher in other parts of the state, people have been sweltering in a place where few homes have air conditioning.

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Tue Jun 18, 2013

Anchorage Daily News

Elise Patkotak: Tropical heat in Anchorage? This isn't right

OK, let's get one thing straight. If I'd wanted to have bright, hot sunshine for weeks in a row I'd have moved to Fairbanks or Hawaii or Mexico or, if I was really desperate, Florida.

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Anchorage Daily News

Hot Tuesday: Anchorage sets new daily high

The National Weather Service recorded a new daily high for Anchorage on Tuesday when temperatures hit 81 degrees at the local forecast office.

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Anchorage Daily News

Letter: Anchorage residents stepped up

The writers who commented on Anchorage being a "mean" and "trashy" place to live will hopefully benefit after hearing my story.

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Anchorage Daily News

No punitive damages in jury award for man hit by cop

An Anchorage jury has awarded $375,000 to a man injured when a distracted police officer's patrol car hit his pickup in 2010.

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Peninsula Clarion

Anchorage residents make run on mosquito products

Residents of Alaska's largest city are making a run on products to keep the high number of mosquitoes in the area at bay.

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Anchorage Daily News

Home-grown stand-up comedian to take local stage

Home-grown stand-up comedian Jessica Singleton will perform at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, June 22, at Chilkoot Charlie's.

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Anchorage Daily News

McAfee, Mitchell perform on Peninsula

Folk/pop Michelle McAfee, who may be better known in McCarthy than in Anchorage, is trouring the state to promote her new CD, "Float," along with Frankie Hernandez of Austin, Texas, who has his own new release, "I Live Here," which is actually a live recording of his opening for Ziggy Marley.

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Anchorage Daily News

Alaska Notebook: Black bear needs no BBQ

Troopers said a man mauled by a black bear after feeding the bear meat from a church picnic barbecue had been drinking.

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Anchorage Daily News

Wasilla teen cited for texting while driving, no valid license

An 18-year-old with a learner's permit was texting while driving when he veered into oncoming traffic and nearly caused a head-on crash Monday, according to Alaska State Troopers.

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Anchorage Daily News

'Scared' bus passengers told troopers driver seemed drunk

A bus load of cruise ship passengers waited by the side of the Seward Highway for two hours after their driver was arrested for drunken driving, the arresting trooper said Monday.

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Mon Jun 17, 2013

Anchorage Daily News

Compass: City labor ordinance makes police, fire recruiting tougher

What is the old clich about chickens coming home to roost? Warnings about unintended consequences were downplayed during the "debate" on Anchorage Ordinance 37, the controversial rewrite of Anchorage's labor laws last spring, and now problems are surfacing.

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Anchorage Daily News

Jury find Jones-Nelson guilty of murder in 2011 Anchorage killing

A Superior Court jury on Monday convicted an Anchorage man of murder in a 2011 killing in a Mountain View apartment.

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KTOO-TV Juneau

Juneau smokers fight back on senior housing smoking ban

Mountain View Apartments for seniors and the disabled at 895 West 12th Street, Juneau., is one of several AHFC facilities to go totally smoke free in August.

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WebProNews

Bear Mauls Man in Alaska After He Fed It BBQ

In things-you-know-you-shouldn't-do-but-do-anyway-and-wind-up-in-the-news news, an Anchorage, Alaska man has been treated and released from a local hospital after he was attacked by a black bear while attending a church picnic at the Eklutna Lake campground.

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Anchorage Daily News

Mosquito invasion in Southcentral Alaska leads to run on supplies

Each spring, it seems, the air of Alaska is filled with the buzz of mosquitoes and the whines of people declaring that this is undoubtedly the worst bug season they've ever experienced in their umpteen years in the far north.

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