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Alaska Outlaw Playing Cards are back with an all-new deck of famous – and infamous – outlaws, rebels and con-men from Alaska’s past.

Postal Service Calls for Bypass Mail Changes, Season’s Last Fuel Delivery Unable to Make it to Nome, Alaska Native, Conservation Groups Challenge Shell Air Permit, Chinook Conditions Expected Through Weekend, AHF Awarded Grant to Expand Educator Cross-Cultural Immersion Program, FCC Launching Program Expanding Rural Broadband Access, Groups Suing State For Failure to Approve Water Rights Application, All New Alaska Outlaw Playing Cards Released,

The Postal Service is again looking at Alaska cuts. The agency's Inspector General says the bypass mail program has evolved past its original purpose and seems to help commercial interests more than rural residents.

Two bodies were found Monday in a south Anchorage townhouse and police are still investigating. A man's body was found hanging, and a woman was dead in the house.

The state is reexamining its cost estimate for the first Alaska Class Ferry. And it’s likely to come in higher than the total allocated to construction.

The University of Alaska Anchorage joined the other campuses of the UA system last month in launching its “Stay on Track” initiative. The program calls for students to plan their classes and majors to be able to finish their undergraduate degrees in four years.

House Ethics Committee Extends Probe of Rep. Young, Murkowski Calls For Investigation Into Why Justice Department Not Investigating Allen, Militia Leader Pleads Not Guilty to Federal Weapons Charges, New Buoy Network Could Help Determine Long-Term Impacts of Ocean Acidification, Study Looks Into Health Effects of Climate Change in Alaska, State Reexamines Alaska Class Ferry Cost, UA Launches ‘Stay on Track’ Initiative, Black Friday Kicks Off Holiday Shopping in Wrangell

The holiday buying season officially kicked off today. To help parents and grandparents shopping for children, the Alaska Public Interest Research Group has released this year’s report of dangerous or potentially dangerous toys.

Ethan Madsen is seven years old – almost eight – and a regular at “the Saturday Thing.” “I built a rocket. I kind of mess around with recycling and put it together and see what I can build,” he says.

Alaska’s Attorney General Resigning, State Lawmaker’s Son Found After White-Knuckled Search, China Stars Country’s First Salmon Farm, Ferry System May Make Horse Travel Easier, Group Releases Report on Dangerous, Potentially Dangerous Toys, Kids Learn the Lost Art of Tinkering, AK: ‘Host a Coastie’ an Unalaska Hit, 300 Villages: Talkeetna

Representatives from the Air Force Real Property Agency say efforts to clean up the former Galena base are well ahead of schedule. When the project began nearly two years ago, over sixty sites had been marked as areas of concern.

Two Fairbanks non-profit groups are teaming up to start a youth homeless shelter. Fairbanks Youth Advocates, which has been spearheading the project, is handing it over to the more experienced Fairbanks Rescue Mission.

Senators Prepare for More Budget Battles, Survey Shows Increase in Bristol Bay Shareholder Opposition to Pebble Mine, High Tech Survey Shows More Gold Deposits Near Old Gold Rush Sites, Governor’s Advisory Group Opposes Sealaska Bills, Kookesh Challenging Stedman for State Senate Seat, Former Galena Air Force Base Cleanup Ahead of Schedule, Fairbanks Non-Profits Team Up to Start Homeless Youth Shelter, Thanksgiving Blessing Project Enters Eighth Year

On average Kodiak residents kill 15-20 bears each year in defense of life or property. This year only one has been killed. Alaska Department of Fish and Game Wildlife Biologist Larry Van Daele says the sharp decline in threatening bear encounters is probably a result of hunter education and a good berry season.

A Los Angeles based production company is making a documentary television series about Army spouses in Alaska. 444 Blue Productions is developing the program for the Oprah Winfrey Network.

Bill Allen Not Facing Child Sexual Abuse Charges, Alaska Journalists Publish ‘Crude Awakening’, Fairbanks Hesitant to Take Strong Line Against ‘Occupy’ Protestors, Foreign Worker Program Frozen Due to Alleged Abuse, Kodiak Sees Decline in Bears Killed in Defense of Life, Property, Preparation and Caution Key to Holiday Shopping, Army Spouses Reality Show Coming to Alaska

The final day of the 2011 commercial halibut fishery was on Friday, and the season ended with Kodiak overtaking Homer as the top port for halibut landings in the state.

National Fisherman will honor two Alaskans at the Pacific Marine Expo in Seattle this weekend. Bill Webber, Jr., of Cordova, and Dan Falvey of Sitka will join San Francisco’s Larry Collins as the magazine’s 2011 “Highliners of the Year.”

Delegation Reacts to Super Committee’s Failure to Come Up With Debt Reduction Plan, Probe Into Stevens Prosecutors Reveals Concealment But Does Not Call For Charges, Crews Finish Storm Damage Surveys, Cheseto’s Feet Amputated After Disappearance, Federal Court Upholds ‘Endangered' Listing for Cook Inlet Belugas, ANGDA Head Resigns, Human Remains Found Beneath Cable House, Kodiak Overtakes Homer As Top Halibut Port, Troller Dan Falvey Named 2011 Highliner of the Year,

The biting north winds that buffeted Anchorage earlier this week may have relented, but the pressure on the city’s overnight shelters has not. That’s true even for Bean’s Cafe– primarily known for serving meals, but now functioning as an overflow shelter.