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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 | 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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6 hrs ago | 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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11 hrs ago | 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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Peninsula Clarion

Police respond to shooting in southwest Anchorage

Anchorage Police Department spokeswoman Dani Myren tells KTUU-TV that officers at 1:24 a.m. responded to reports of shots fired on Victor Road.

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Anchorage Daily News

Police: Man hospitalized in South Anchorage shooting

Someone reported the gunfire at 1:24 a.m. at the 9600 block of Victor Road, said department spokeswoman Dani Myren.

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HeraldTimesOnline.com

June 17: Morning fog

The sun sets over Westchester Lagoon just before 1 a.m. on Sunday, June 16, 2013, in Anchorage, Alaska.

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MLive.com

Adventures in Alaska: North Muskegon native spends year teaching in remote Alaskan village

North Muskegon native Chad Brown didn't know what to expect when he attended a job fair at Michigan State University in April of 2012.

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Sun Jun 16, 2013

Anchorage Daily News

Man mauled after feeding bear some BBQ had been drinking, troopers say

A man was mauled by a bear near the Eklutna Lake Campground on Saturday after he threw barbecued meat at the animal, the Alaska State Troopers said Sunday.

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Anchorage Daily News

Motorhome rolls, burns, catches woods on fire

A motorhome rolled off the Edgerton Highway on Thursday near Chitina, then caught fire and burned a nearby wooded area, according to Alaska State Troopers.

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Anchorage Daily News

Small fish could net big reward in Ship Creek king salmon derby

The biggest fish entered as of 7 p.m. Saturday was 29.01-pounder caught by Joiji Lino, and unless someone lands a lunker in the derby's final hours Sunday, Lino's fish will make history.

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Anchorage Daily News

Dyed and gone to heaven

The Color Run drew 15,000 participants in Anchorage on Saturday, June 15, 2013, according to organizers.

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Anchorage Daily News

Art Beat: 2 Alaska composers are getting national attention

Among the notices from performing arts groups around the country received here recently, I spotted a familiar name -- Olga Bell.

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Sat Jun 15, 2013

Anchorage Daily News

Galena counts its losses from Yukon River flooding

Josephine Malemute looks through family photographs soaked by the flooding of the Yukon River in Galena, AK.

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Anchorage Daily News

Man charged in Platinum Jaxx fatal shooting appears in court

A man charged with murder in the October shooting death of another man in downtown Anchorage made his first court appearance in the case Saturday.

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Anchorage Daily News

Shooting outside nightclub wounds 3 in downtown Anchorage

A suspect still on the loose shot and injured three men outside a downtown Anchorage nightclub in the early morning hours Saturday, police said.

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Fire Warning for Anchorage County was issued at June 18 at 7:12AM AKDT