A wildlife photographer was shocked during a recent up-close encounter with a grizzly bear in the woods. Nate Luebbe was camping in Katmai National Park in the northern Alaska Peninsula with a friend named Cody when the unthinkable happened. Luebbe, 36, was near his campsite in Brooks Falls when he came in close contact with a grizzly bear that was …
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Jamie Roberts and her husband felt lucky when they found an A-frame cabin on forest-draped Wrangell Island in southeast Alaska, where they could settle on a few acres and have some chickens. A stretch of highway a few miles north, the only road into town, did make her nervous; there, waterfalls cascaded and rocks tumbled from towering bluffs on stormy …
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Alaska lawmakers on Monday failed to override Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of an education package, just weeks after the bill that sought to boost spending on public schools overwhelmingly passed the Legislature. Monday’s vote during a joint session of the House and Senate was 39-20, falling just short of the 40 votes needed for an override. Dunleavy, a former …
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