Mark Thiessen, Associated Press

The honor of having the last voter in the nation fell to Adak when they did away with absentee-only voting for the 2012 election and added in-person voting.

Grazer, whose cub was killed this summer by another bear featured in the contest, was crowned the bulkiest bruin by more than 40,000 votes.

Organizers introduced this year’s contestants on Tuesday — a day late — because one anticipated participant, a female known as 402, was killed by a male bear.

The interaction drew condemnation from NORAD’s top officer and one of Alaska’s U.S. senators.

The deployment to Shemya Island involved soldiers from Alaska, Washington and Hawaii with the 11th Airborne Division and the 1st and 3rd Multi Domain Task Forces.

Eight Russian military planes and four navy vessels have come close to Alaska in the past week as Russia and China conducted joint military drills.

The state Office of Veterans Affairs awarded World War II veteran Louis Gigliotti, who lives in Anchorage, the Alaska Veterans Honor Medal for securing his benefits.

Tamayo Perry won the Pipeline Master trials in 1999 and had several small acting roles, including playing a buccaneer in “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” in 2011.

A tourism worker and two police officers rescued a moose calf from “a sure demise” after it fell into a lake and got stuck last week.

Rick’s father, Dick Mackey, won the race in 1978, and his brother Lance won four straight Iditarods from 2007 through 2010.

The iconic burled arch that stands over the thousand-mile sled dog race’s finish line collapsed Saturday, likely from wood rot.

A 15-year volunteer effort is helping identify the fates of Alaskans shipped to a controversial hospital from 1904 to the 1960s.

Three corrections officers were shot and wounded — two by the accomplice and one by responding police — during the attack in the ambulance bay of the hospital.

This year the deaths of three dogs during the race — and five more during training — have refocused attention on the darker side of Alaska’s state sport.

He faces two counts each of first- and second-degree murder, four counts of attempted murder, seven counts of assault and a burglary charge in the shooting that left two people dead and two others injured.