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A new airline's in town with an eye on opening Alaska up -- and bringing prices down -- for Lower 48 flights. A question-and-answer session with Virgin America CEO David Cush.Scott McMurren
Jazz in Spenard, people-watching in Chicken, wordsmithing on the Kenai, color running with Pride: all the ingredients for an Alaska weekend worth remembering, before it's even begun.Ben Anderson, Katie Medred

High-end beauty wonderland: Sephora brings its "stress free" cosmetics culture to Anchorage's Fifth Avenue Mall.

Leslie Boyd
Sephora debuts its first Alaska store on Friday, bringing a "stress free, beauty product playground" to Anchorage's Fifth Avenue Mall.Leslie Boyd
Maurice Sendak's imaginative children's books, honored on Monday with a Google doodle, let children go 'where the wild things are.'Elizabeth Barber
Ever wanted to see what it’s like flying next to eagles, hundreds of feet in the air in far-flung Alaska?Eli Martin
Despite all the hand-wringing in the media business these days, we know why people click on a webpage. They click-in because they see something they think might be interesting. And they click-out just as fast because it wasn't.Craig Medred
While Alaska Airlines tries to smooth over the feathers it ruffled with announced changes to its Fairbanks-Anchorage flights, let's look at some key differences between the Boeing 737 and Bombardier Q400 -- and a few great airfares for the Golden Heart City.Scott McMurren
'The Frozen Ground,' a full length feature film shot in Southcentral Alaska two years ago, has finally released an official movie trailer after a poorly edited short promo served as face of the film for several months this winter.Alaska Dispatch
Scientists have found an explanation for the periods of extreme cold described in the writings of Irish monks: volcanic eruptions, some very far away.Elizabeth Barber

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Drug Free Schools Coalition: Prosecute marijuana farmers, sellers

Anyone who is cultivating, selling, or distributing marijuana is violating the federal Controlled Substances Act, regardless of state law. Obama must enforce federal law and begin prosecutions to stop the proliferation of "medical" and recreational marijuana that is harming our kids.David G. Evans