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Helium speakers are the company's first product to market and will be the world's the first supercapacitor-powered portable speakers.

When Lynn Whitmore goes after king salmon, he motors away from the Lower Cook Inlet shoreline and off in search of a foreigner.

SCREEN GRAB . . . Well darlings, the Omniscient Orifice predicted that war between KTUU-Channel 2 and KTVA-Channel 11 would be fun, and now the fun has begun: The new KTVA News signed on at 5 p.m. last Monday with its Star-Trekky set and shiny new staff.

The woman uses her body to protect the scared child. You wonder if you should intervene, and if so, how? What do you do? When participants at a Juneau workshop on Thursday were asked what would prevent them from intervening in such a scenario, the list was lengthy.

A 27-year-old woman was charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of her boyfriend in a Midtown apartment Friday night, according to Anchorage police.

WIND IN THE WILLOWS Sydney Laurence Theatre 12/7-12/13/2013 The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame , first published in 1908.

ANCHORAGE, AK Healthcare officials in Alaska are asking the public to try the government's website again in an effort to boost early poor enrollment numbers.

I wrote my first column in September 1984 and this is my last. I am adjusting my real estate brokerage practice to selected projects to have more time for family, travel and other activities.

Visiting Churches: Chris Thompson is an amateur Alaskan biblical scholar and student of religion, especially as it relates to popular culture.

Representative Bob Herron is being fined for ethics violations, dating back to when he was first elected to the Legislature in 2009.

One person has died in a car accident on Seward Highway just north of McHugh Creek Saturday morning, according to Anchorage police dispatch.

Time to hit the slopes - areas around the country are experiencing Decembrrrr, which means that there is plenty of incoming rain and snow.

The Assembly is poised to award a $1.1 million annual contract to a law firm to defend people being prosecuted by the city who can't afford their own attorneys.

The airline is honoring the university's two main campuses by painting one 76-seat Bombardier Q400 turboprop with an Anchorage theme and another with a Fairbanks theme, said UAA spokeswoman Jessica Hamlin.

Police were called to a Bethel home early on a morning last week and found the toddler with visible facial wounds and a broken clavicle that would require medevac to Anchorage.

The controversial Ambler Road was the focus of the Western Arctic Caribou Herd Working Group meeting in Anchorage on Thursday.

David Wigglesworth pulls a kick sled with Talven, 3, and Kestrel, 7, while ice skating at Westchester Lagoon on Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013.

Judge Michael Spann handed down a sentence of 50 years with 20 suspended and 10 years of probation to Lawrence Lobdell for the 2009 murder of Jimmy Lockery in the Nesbett Courthouse on Friday, December 6, 2013.

University of Alaska Anchorage engineering student and President of the UAA chapter of the Society of Women Engineers Andrea Hulman signs the ceremonial last beam at the Topping Out Ceremony for the new Engineering & Industry Building on the campus of the University of Alaska Anchorage in Anchorage, Alaska Friday, Dec. 6, 2013.

Gov. Sean Parnell is proposing putting $3 billion from a state savings account toward paying down Alaska's roughly $12 billion pension shortfall.