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A 911 call came in just after midnight Monday reporting the robbery in the 12000 block of Brandon Street, according to a release from police spokeswoman Jennifer Castro.

The Homewood Suites by Hilton Anchorage hotel is excited to welcome competitors and fans of the 2014 Native Youth Olympic Games, April 24th through 26th at the Denaina Center.

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He is said to have uttered "Paris is well worth a Mass!" 1895 - Auguste and Louis Lumiere show their first movie to an invited audience in Paris; this is generally regarded as the first public display of a movie projected onto a screen.

A man fatally shot by authorities in Alaska over the weekend was a moose hunter who found the body of a young wanderer whose story was featured in the movie "Into the Wild," his nephew said Friday.

Firefighters man one of the ladders that suspended the flag over 5th Avenue Saturday afternoon.

Bethel's senator opened up the governor's natural gas pipeline legislation Friday and successfully inserted a new special energy fund that would bring cheaper energy to rural Alaska or any part of the state that wouldn't get natural gas directly.

More than a foot of snow fell on parts of Anchorage and Eagle River Friday night, the biggest winter storm to hit the area since January, forecasters said.

Democrat Berta Gardner from Anchorage offered two amendments to Senate Bill 139 in attempt to prevent the forcing of a charter school upon a local school district by the state school board.

Anchorage police are looking for a suspect Friday after receiving reports of a string of thefts from women's locker rooms at Planet Fitness gyms over the past 48 hours.

The Juneau Empire reported that the controversial deportation amendment was attached to a bill intended to add offenses against those who attack correctional officers.

When Black Violin first came to Anchorage some years back, they put on a terrific display of multi-discipline musicality, shifting from classical licks to pop pulse in a program that was both elegant and exciting.

A fourteen-year-old girl fell approximately 30 feet Friday from a cliff near Thunderbird Falls to the water's edge.

Collapse of Fourth Avenue near C Street in Anchorage, Alaska, due to a landslide caused by the earthquake on March 27, 1964.

The National Weather Service is warning drivers in the Anchorage Bowl that a surge of cold air from the south Friday night will freeze wet surfaces and ice over roadways.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A relative says a man fatally shot by authorities in Alaska over the weekend was a moose hunter who found the body of a young wanderer whose story was featured in the movie "Into the Wild."

Michael Baker Jr., Inc. in Anchorage, an engineering unit of Michael Baker International, LLC, announces the opening of its Fairbanks, Alaska office on the 2nd floor of the Fairbanks Pipeline Training Center, Central Office Facility, 3605 Cartwright Court.

A Californian who had been tapped by Governor Sean Parnell to serve on a high-profile state board withdrew his name from consideration on Wednesday evening.

The Anchorage Assembly voted Tuesday to designate land at the center of a controversy in East Anchorage for a park.

Defending champion Keola Suapaia works on eating the noodles after they cooled down enough during the Man versus Pho 2 at the Phonatik Vietnamese Cuisine and Lounge off Dimond Boulevard in Anchorage on Tuesday, March 11, 2014.