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Alaska Native servicemen finally honored as Code Talkers
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Army veteran Richard Bean Sr. died without anyone knowing that he and four other long-deceased Alaska Natives had used their Tlingit language to outsmart the Japanese during World War II. Now, they are finally being hailed i...
2 moose found frozen mid-fight near remote Alaska village
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two moose were recently discovered frozen in battle and encased in ice near a remote village on Alaska's unforgiving western coast. Brad Webster, a middle school social studies and science teacher in Unalakleet, captured i...
Arctic farming: Town defies icy conditions with hydroponics
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The landscape is virtually treeless around a coastal hub town above Alaska's Arctic Circle, where even summer temperatures are too cold for boreal roots to take hold. Amid these unforgiving conditions, a creative kind of f...
