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Those words for Alaska may mean something radically different if a sweeping crime bill, shepherded by Senate Majority Leader John Coghill, R-North Pole, passes the Legislature.

Scott Janssen cried as he sized up his situation one last time: numb fingers, wet snowsuit, broken bone, woozy head, far from help.

Julia O'Malley writes a general interest column about life and politics in Anchorage and around Alaska.

Danielle Medolla, front center, posing with her family in Anchorage, Alaska. In the background from left is her husband Robert and children Robert, 9, Christopher, 7 and Paul, 4. Danielle Medolla has spent years helping other people, now she is getting rewarded for it.

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

Gilbert Huntington, from Galena, Alaska, shares a laugh with Iditarod musher Hugh Neff, from Tok, at the Galena checkpoint during the 2014 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Friday, March 7, 2014.

Gov. Sean Parnell has appointed a Californian who worked for 18 years in the oil industry to the state board that sets the tax value for oil-industry property despite a law that says board and commission appointees must be registered Alaska voters.

Miller, headquartered in Knoxville, Tenn., is the parent company of Cook Inlet Energy LLC, an Alaska oil and gas producer and explorer based in Anchorage.

Rep. Harriet Drummond, D-Anchorage, will miss the next two to three weeks of the legislative session to help her husband recover from heart surgery, her staff said Friday.

If you have competed in the Green River Narrows Race and made it through the turn called "Turn Left or Die," you will find Flatwater Paddling boring.

After two weeks of deliberations, jurors reached a verdict Friday morning on all but one count in the trial for three men involved in a 2011 shooting outside an East Anchorage bar that left two dead and two others injured.

Loughrey, 16, is passionate about the issues facing homeless teens in Anchorage.

Two costly, challenging and controversial road projects are being pushed this year by the Parnell administration, and on Thursday all sides made a quick case before a joint meeting of the House and Senate transportation committees.

Former Iditarod executive director and former Ruby resident Raine Hall shares the five-course meal with Jeff King after he was the first musher to reach the Yukon River checkpoint of Ruby during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Thursday, March 6, 2014.

The U.S. attorney's office in Anchorage says 56-year-old Jon William Munhoven could face up to 20 years in prison when he is sentenced June 23 in federal court in Juneau.

The sponsor of the bill, Sen. Fred Dyson, R-Eagle River, said his goal is to get ferry workers in line with the rest of state, the Alaska Public Radio Network reported .

Flowering Canadian Waterweed, or Elodea canadensis, is seen growing in a shallow ditch.

Not far from Anchorage is a place that is rich in wildlife, with an abundance of public lands perfect for quiet recreation and family outings.

That whimsical musical model has led the group, a rotating collective of cellists, to perform work by artists as diverse as Kanye West, Pantera and J.S. Bach.

I was doing some preliminary research into the awkwardly named The Rock Wood-Fired Pizza & Spirits restaurant, and found myself perplexed.