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• Sarah Palin family in Alaska brawl: 'Alcohol was believed to be a factor'

  12 Sep 2014: Police confirm ‘verbal and physical altercation’ took place outside house party in Anchorage, where former governor was reported to have shouted: ‘Do you know who I am?’

• Is Unesco committing 'urbanicide' by encouraging city tourism?

  22 Aug 2014: City links: The week’s best city stories claim that heritage preservation kills cities, criticise New York for being a ‘Disneyland for hipsters’ and sing happy birthday to Chennai
  

• Alaska picks Dan Sullivan over Tea Party's Joe Miller in Senate primary

  20 Aug 2014: Former state attorney general will face Democratic incumbent Mark Begich in crucial November midterm election

• New York Times says US must 'repeal prohibition' of federal marijuana ban

  27 Jul 2014: 'Grey Lady' editorial calls for dropping of 44-year ban and says rating of drug with LSD and heroin 'an increasing absurdity'

• 'Republicans aren't good at ground games in Alaska. That's their weakness'

  23 Jul 2014: With an unpopular president, and the GOP in control elsewhere in Alaska, Democratic senator Mark Begich appears hugely vulnerable. So why can't Republicans land a killer blow? Chris McGreal reports

• EPA blocks huge Alaska mine project with environmental restrictions

  18 Jul 2014: Copper and gold mine would have affected area as big as Manhattan and harmed state's largest salmon fishery

• Arctic warming upsetting birds' breeding calendar, study warns

  8 Jul 2014: Climate News Network: 2,500 nests in Alaska show that nesting is taking place up to seven days earlier, reports Climate News Network

• Alaska Bypass: a federal gravy train that costs the US Postal Service dear

  1 Jul 2014:

  Many rural settlements must be supplied by air but goods acquire a markup as airlines benefit and the postal agency suffers a loss of $2.5bn over three decades

• Tsunami warnings and evacuations follow quake near Aleutian Islands

  24 Jun 2014: Magnitude-8.0 earthquake prompts precautionary warnings for coastal Alaskan towns, though no damage has been reported

• Evacuations of 1,000 structures ordered as Alaska wildfire grows

  26 May 2014: Conflagration engulfs 243 square miles of southern Alaska as firefighters make progress containing northern Arizona fire

• Alaska battles huge wildfire while Arizona struggles to contain blaze

  25 May 2014: Conflagration covers more than 193 square miles of southern Alaska
  while Sedona and Flagstaff suffer heavy smoke from controlled burning

• Alaska village turns to banishments in case of shot state troopers

  19 May 2014: Two troopers died in 1 May incident over which two men have been banished, in absence of law enforcement

• Alaska couples launch challenge to state's same-sex marriage ban

  13 May 2014: Lawsuit filed by five couples seeks to overturn a state constitutional amendment that voters approved in 1998

• Alaska man arrested in connection with fatal shooting of two state troopers

  2 May 2014: Nathaniel Lee Kangas is under arrest for the murders of the two troopers who appeared on National Geographic channel show
  

• Alaska governor 'deeply saddened' after state troopers killed in remote village

  2 May 2014:

  Patrick 'Scott' Johnson and Gabriel Rich shot and killed in village of Tanana, 130 miles west of Fairbanks and inaccessible by car

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