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Tricked out mobile home offers new twist on off-the-grid living in Alaska.

Laurel Andrews
To help raise funds and awareness for charitable causes around the state, the cast of colorful characters who make up Alaska Pro Wrestling conduct monthly battles between heroes and villains, giants and underdogs.Jerzy Shedlock
This weekend's choices for the Anchorage area include Spring Carnival, Faust, Motion City Soundtrack, Clark James Mishler's opening, Culmination, Consign49 and more.Ben Anderson, Katie Medred and Suzanna Caldwell
"Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2" was the No. 1 movie in America when last Ben Anderson and company weighed in on what's what in the Alaska weekend scene. Times have changed and currently-hip hipsters are on the prowl to delight weekend warriors.Ben Anderson, Katie Medred

A massive solar flare recently treated much of Alaska to some of the best northern lights in years. Epic ribbons of light and pulsating displays danced all weekend long. And we have the video to prove it.

Loren Holmes

He's cute. He's cuddly. He's got massive paws. And he's the latest adorable critter to stop-over at the Alaska Zoo, where Kali the recently-orphaned polar bear cub will spend some time before finding a more permanent home.

Katie Medred

Zak’s Boardroom on Fourth Avenue in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, isn’t really the new shop on the block anymore, but the initial ambition that motivated the late 2008 opening is the same.

Loren Holmes
By the numbers: The 2013 Iditarod fielded 66 mushers and as many as 1,056 dogs in a 998-mile race through at least four ghost towns and along Alaska's longest river to yield a 53-year-old winner, the oldest musher in 41 years to win.Eric Christopher Adams

Doesn't take much to achieve celebrity status on the frontier: TV news personalities, folk singers, oil chieftains and Iditarod Trail racers are about the biggest superstars Alaska can muster. Meet Alaska's celebrity lookalikes.

Alaska Dispatch

Fur earmuffs, fur-lined jackets and furry, bearded Alaska men: It should come as no surprise that this year's trending accessory at the annual winter festival in Anchorage, the Fur Rondy, is animal fur.

Loren Holmes

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