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Laurel Andrews
Event organizers say the festival has grown to be more of a social gathering than a typical trade show, thanks to hundreds of volunteers and Alaska's tight-knit aviation community.
Loren Holmes
A new power plant fueled by methane from Anchorage's landfill supplies 25 percent of Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson's electricity. Here's a look at the plant.
Colleen Mondor
A Michigan man has spent 10 years obsessing over a B-25 Mitchell bomber planted in a Tanana River sandbar since the first Nixon administration. Now he's got the go-ahead to recover the "Sandbar Mitchell" and rebuild it for a warbirds museum exhibit.
Matt Tunseth / Chugiak-Eagle River Star
The National Park Service recently enlisted the assistance of the U.S. Army to shuttle supplies to Park Service base camps located far up 20,328-foot Mt. McKinley.
Laurel Andrews
Adam Ottavi spent April in the Alaska coastal town of Homer creating portraits utilizing a photographic technique from the 19th century for his show "To Crave What the Light Does Crave." Here's a preview of his show, which begins Friday in Homer.
Alaska Dispatch
Kali, an orphaned polar bear cub rescued in March on Alaska's North Slope, has been recuperating the last six or so weeks in the big city, at the Anchorage Zoo. Now, the cub is readying for a plane ride across the continent to upstate New York, where he'll find a permanent home at the Buffalo Zoo.
Loren Holmes
As an amphibious transport dock, the USS Anchorage is capable of carrying both amphibious and airborne assets. It will host a crew of 360 sailors and can transport 700 troops.
Mike Campbell
More than a decade since the 7.9-magnitude Denali Fault Earthquake, the scars are still visible across parts of Interior Alaska.
Ben Anderson
In just two days, Swiss climber David Lama and Austrian alpinist Dani Arnold created a new route up the notoriously difficult east face of Moose's Tooth, a 10,335-foot peak considered one of the more difficult climbs in the Alaska Range.
Van Williams
Kari Hancock, 17-year-old Alaska state champion equestrian, handled her own public relations by creating a YouTube account and emailing links to colleges across the country to gain scholarship to TCU.
Loren Holmes
More than 500 student athletes from communities of all sizes across Alaska demonstrated strength, agility and skill in traditional Native games, including the stick pull, seal hop and many more at the 2013 Native Youth Olympics.
Loren Holmes, Mike Campbell
Light April snow may still be falling, intermittently, in Southcentral Alaska. But a better harbinger of changing seasons may be the return of birds like specklebellies and Sandhill cranes, flocking to feeding and breeding grounds around Cook Inlet.

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