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A Union City Police walks inside a police barrier on 20th Street in Union City, N.J., after attention was brought to a home believed to be inhabited by possible family members of the suspect in the shooting at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017, in Union City, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Family: Shooting suspect ‘lost his mind’ after tour in Iraq

By JASON DEAREN - Associated Press

Fog advisory extended for Anchorage, Matanuska Valley

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National Weather Service forecasts snow for much of Alaska

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In this Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2016, photo, runners and dogs jog on a trail at Westchester Lagoon in Anchorage, Alaska. With ice present on city streets for up to seven months per year, most walkers and runners use footwear that has built-in studs or attached cleats as a safety measure to avoid falling. (AP Photo/Dan Joling)

In icy Alaska, footwear options abound to stay upright

By DAN JOLING - Associated Press

Anchorage seeks money for port, financial flexibility

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File - In this July 5, 2013, file photo is a glacier in Lake Clark Pass near Port Alsworth, Alaska. Authorities were searching Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, for a small plane with four people on board missing in the narrow, mountainous valley believed to be part of the airplane's flight path. (AP File Photo/Mark Thiessen)

Missing plane likely crashed into Alaska lake, officials say

By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 29, 2006, photo, a pedestrian walks past the 4th Avenue Theatre in Anchorage, Alaska. The owners of the art moderne-style theater, designed by the architect of Hollywood's famed Pantages Theatre, have applied to demolish the opulent vintage icon, prompting the Municipality of Anchorage to hasten efforts to protect historic buildings. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File)

Anchorage issues moratorium on historic building demolitions

By RACHEL D'ORO - Associated Press

A helicopter brings a 700-pound sack of car parts to a trash bin on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016, in Anchorage, Alaska. More than 2,000 cars were dumped over a bluff above a wildlife refuge after the 1964 Good Friday earthquake, and a clean up effort to remove about 100 of those cars imbedded in the bluff has been going on for nine years. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

Final cleanup of Alaska automobile junkyard is underway

By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press

The Latest: Police release name of man who died in crash

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In this Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016, photo, store owner Caleb Saunders answers questions in front of his shop, Green Jar in Wasilla, Alaska. Saunders hopes to sell marijuana from the shop and opposes a ballot measure that would ban sales, cultivation, testing of marijuana in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. Alaska's fastest-growing municipality will decide Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, whether to ban commercial marijuana enterprises. (AP Photo/Dan Joling)

Alaska marijuana sales close, pending opening of test labs

By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press

This Feb. 18, 1962 photo shows author, filmmaker and adventurer Lowell Thomas Jr. speaking at the Republican's Lincoln Day dinner in Fairbanks, Alaska. Thomas Jr., a former Alaska lieutenant governor who served from 1974 to 1978, and son of the legendary broadcaster, has died. His daughter, Anne Donaghy, says Thomas Jr. died Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016, at his home in Anchorage, Alaska. (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner via AP)

Ex-Alaska official, son of legendary broadcaster, dies at 92

By BECKY BOHRER and MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press

Lawmakers near deadline to move out of office space

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The Latest: Autopsy set for man in 42-hour standoff

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A police officer ties police tape to a handrail. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Coast Guard: 46 people rescued from sinking boat off Alaska

By Rachel D'Oro and Bob Seavey - Associated Press

Dave Delcourt, a handler on musher Ray Redington Jr.'s sled dog team, holds Dozer for a pre-race blood screening and heart check at Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race headquarters in Wasilla, Alaska, on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016. Low snow in the Anchorage area may cause havoc for the race's ceremonial start on March 5, 2016, and the race's board of directors will decide Friday, Feb. 12, 2016, whether the race will have to move its official start scheduled the next day in Willow, Alaska, further north to Fairbanks. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

Low snow causes havoc again with Iditarod

By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Vincent Nusunginya, items fallen from the shelves litter the aisles inside a Safeway grocery store following a magnitude 6.8 earthquake on the Kenai Peninsula on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016, in south-central Alaska. (Vincent Nusunginya via the AP)

Alaska hit by quake, magnitude 7.1; 4 homes lost

By Mark Thiessen - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Vincent Nusunginya, items fallen from the shelves litter the aisles inside a Safeway grocery store following a magnitude 6.8 earthquake on the Kenai Peninsula on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016, in south-central Alaska. (Vincent Nusunginya via the AP)

Magnitude-7.1 quake jolts Alaska; 4 homes lost

By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press

Alaska Gov. Bill Walker holds a news conference in Anchorage concerning his action on the budget on May 18, 2015. (Bill Roth/Alaska Dispatch News via Associated Press) **FILE**

Alaska judge refuses to halt Gov. Bill Walker’s unilateral Medicaid expansion plans

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

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Alaska military base to honor gay pride with drag show

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Kenai Police Sgts. Scott McBride, left, and Jay Sjogren review a map with Lisa Jaegar from the Mat-Su Search and Rescue Dogs on June 9 in Kenai, Alaska. Two rescue dog teams along with agents with the FBI searched the wooded area north of Wildwood Correctional Facility for a Kenai family of four, missing since May 27. (Associated Press)

Human remains found in Alaska, may be tied to missing family

By Dan Joling - Associated Press