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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.