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Longtime Juneau resident James Lyle Scoles died peacefully at his Juneau home on Oct.

As many as 500 volunteers a ' many from outside Alaska a ' helped rebuild the town of 150 residents that was devastated in early May by a Yukon ice jam and flood.

If you drive the Alaska Highway the first place you visit is the unequaled Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge in Tok, Alaska.

There will be no state winter hunt for Fortymile caribou because hunters killed too many animals this fall along the Steese and Taylor highways, even though the season in both areas closed after only three days.

Fortymile caribou hunts along both the Steese and Taylor highways will close at midnight today, just three days after they opened.

Sculptor/carver/artist Franklin Matchian, originally from Chevak, now living in Anchorage, made the news some years ago when he discovered an ivory point incongruously embedded in a piece of ancient whalebone that he was carving.

It's the beginning of August and, surprisingly, Anchorage paddlers Brenda Forsythe and Larry Seethaler can walk.

The family of a California couple whose plane took off from Wolf Lake airport northwest of Palmer in June and disappeared is gearing up for an intensive search for the couple next week.

An airplane using the Alaska Highway as a runway struck a truck near Tok as it was taking off from a stop for repairs, Alaska State Troopers said Friday.

Any moose calf alive in mid-summer is a lucky animal. If the calf was born a twin, it has probably seen its sibling pulled down and eaten by a bear.

Authorities suspended their search for the caretaker of a hunting lodge about 100 miles from Tok, a spokeswoman for Alaska State Troopers confirmed Wednesday.

Unclogged sidewalks, glacier tour cancellations and reservation-free dining in downtown Anchorage were some of the signs of a souring tourism season this year.

Anchorage Daily News - Anchorage,AK,USA Unclogged sidewalks, glacier tour cancellations and reservation-free dining in downtown Anchorage were some of the signs of a souring tourism season this year.

Goin' north, the rush is on ... - The late Johnny Horton This sign greeted four wide-eyed travelers from the Lower 48 at the outset of a 10-day great Alaska pilgrimage.

Alaska State Troopers are looking for a drifter hired to look after a lodge in a national park about 100 miles outside of Tok.

Around the state, in places such as Anchorage, Tok, Naknek and Unalakleet, a person hardly has to go to court anymore to dig up information on a case.

The Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys will release, on July 1, airborne geophysical data and maps for about 442 square miles of the Chistochina mining district, about 40 miles southwest of Tok.

A dozen white motor homes clogged the Kenai Holiday gas station parking lot Monday morning, giving locals a rare glimpse at the kind of caravan that has been conspicuously missing from the summertime scene so far this year.

Alaska State Troopers said a small plane is missing after leaving Wolf Lake airport near Palmer bound for Whitehorse, Yukon Territory.

Jim Marsh tends the grill as he cooks dinner for himself and his wife Judy at Chickenstock in Chicken, Alaska.