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With a temperature of just 5 degrees at 9 a.m., Battle Creek was 23 degrees colder than Anchorage, Alaska.

The clock app in iOS 7 is pretty straightforward. There's an alarm, stopwatch, timer, and a world clock.

Jim Wilde and John Sturgeon have both lost their lawsuits to challenge the National Park Service's authority to dictate their behavior on navigable rivers in the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve.

Christina Moua, 27, was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday for the death of her infant nephew, whom she shook and dropped while babysitting.

On a 27-acre swath of wetlands southwest of the intersection at 100th Avenue and C Street, the developer, JL Properties, is angling to provide at 200,000 square feet of retail space for dozens of outlet shops.

In this file photo, Assemblyman Chris Birch meets supporters at McGinley's Pub in downtown Anchorage on Tuesday, Apr. 5, 2011.

An attack on a Seward prison inmate by another inmate Friday critically injured the victim, according to Alaska State Troopers.

Prosecutors say McIntosh strangled the woman and hit her with fists and a studded belt but that she escaped by climbing through the window of McIntosh's apartment.

The Alaska Historical Commission will meet Friday, Dec. 13, in the Reynolds Conference Room of the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, located at 625 C Street in Anchorage.

Anchorage police are responding to an accident involving a shuttle bus that has closed the eastbound lanes of Northern Lights Boulevard, spokeswoman Jennifer Castro said Monday morning.

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.