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The mayor’s administration is soon clearing two of the city’s largest homeless camps. While officials say they’re doing lots of outreach to move the campers into shelters and housing, these friends say they won’t leave their tight-knit community.
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Some of the park's nonprofit partners say federal reductions in force this spring made it difficult to plan summer youth programs. -
A single dead wolf near Gustavus kicked off a sweeping research project that examined different packs’ reliance on marine prey, and how that diet might affect their health. -
The rate hikes were passed alongside the city’s budget for next year, which the Assembly unanimously approved during a meeting Monday night after months of work. -
The state-owned Alaska Aerospace Corp. signed a cooperation agreement with the University of Alaska on Tuesday in Fairbanks. -
Both pilots ejected from the F-16D Fighting Falcon, which was at Eielson for a multinational Red Flag exercise, after it crashed during takeoff Tuesday afternoon. -
Seattle, along with other cities, is struggling to balance the need for more housing with the preservation and growth of trees that help address the impacts of climate change. -
Sen. Murkowski criticizes the Trump administration's deployment of Marines to Los Angeles. -
"Our military are to be used to protect us from foreign threats, but not within our own country,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski said. -
The Northern Journal also found most state lawmakers disinterested in the topic of changing the limited-entry system. -
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