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'Mother Nature has no mercy': Man gets stuck waist-deep in Alaska mud flats, drowns as tide comes in
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A man who was walking on tidal mud flats with friends in an Alaska estuary got stuck up to his waist in the quicksand-like silt and drowned as the tide came in before frantic rescuers could extract him, authorities said. Zachary Porter, 20, of Lake Bluff,...
'Leap of faith:' Alaska pursues carbon offset market while embracing oil
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska's push to become a bigger player in the clean energy market is in the spotlight this week at a conference convened by its Republican governor, even as the state continues to embrace new fossil fuel production, including the controversial Willow oil project on the...
Erdogan wins endorsement for Turkish election runoff from third-place candidate Ogan
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The third-placed contender in the Turkish presidential elections formally endorsed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday for the second-round runoff vote to be held on May 28. The nationalist presidential candidate Sinan Ogan, 55, has emerged as a potential...
Park rangers rescue fallen climber at Alaska's Denali National Park
TALKEETNA, Alaska (AP) — National Park Service rangers rescued a climber who fell from a 16,000-foot-high (4,800-meter-high) ridge at Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska, officials said Saturday. A mountaineering ranger evacuated the 24-year-old Japanese climber from a...
Alaska lawmakers pass budget, ending special session in one day
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska lawmakers have passed a state spending package, which includes a dividend of about $1,300 each to residents this year, and ended their special session after one day. The special session began and ended Thursday, one day after the 121-day regular session...
Alaska court reconsiders 135-year sentence given to youngest girl ever convicted of murder in Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A lower court will reconsider the 135-year sentence given to a then-14-year-old girl four decades ago for her role in the shooting deaths of three people in Anchorage. When Winona Fletcher was sentenced in 1986, she became the youngest female ever convicted...
Alaska lawmakers open special session after failing to reach budget deal
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska lawmakers began a special session Thursday after failing to reach agreement on a state spending package during their four-month regular session. Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy called the special session after the House failed to take up a budget plan...
Alaska lawmakers pass bill to keep gun shops open during disasters if other businesses are
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska lawmakers on Wednesday passed legislation that seeks to block state and local officials from closing gun stores during disasters declared by the governor, unless such closures apply to all other businesses. The bill, HB61, is a response to business...
Breaking ice jams, rapid snowmelt flood homes, businesses and roads across Alaska
Flooding across Alaska has inundated scores of homes, with several of them knocked from their foundations by large ice chunks, and shut one of the state's few east-west highways down to one lane. Ice jams on the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers caused most of the damage through a large...
Surging Alaska rivers leave behind huge chunks of ice, damaged homes
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Ice jams that blocked two Alaska rivers broke loose over the weekend, unleashing a surge of ice and water that caused major floods, damaged homes and left behind huge chunks of ice as tall as 12 feet (3.7 meters). Floodwaters on the Yukon River peaked at or...
