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Iditarod will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2012. The race to Nome starts the first weekend of March. Last year, a new record pace was set, Lance Mackey's dominance ended, and an Inupiat Eskimo known as "one of the best mushers who had never won the Iditarod" -- Kotzebue's John Baker -- made Iditarod history.

Alaska commercial fishermen have benefited substantially from recent federal and international regulations governing the state's halibut fishery, often at the expense of smaller charter-boat and sports fishermen. Questions of fairness and sustainability have been ignored by regulators up the political food chain who appear sympathetic to Big Seafood and Outside business interests. Who's looking out for the little fish? (Read the coverage)

The charges lodged variously against five Fairbanks residents in March are simple: conspiracy to commit murder and kidnapping and amassing the firepower to get the job done -- machine guns, grenades, silencers. But behind the death plots aimed at state and federal judges and members of law enforcement lurks a series of unsettling unknowns. Left unchecked, would the group have actually carried out its mission? How many militias in Alaska share their views?

When Joe Miller defeated incumbent U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the 2010 GOP primary, Alaskans still didn't know much about the Fairbanks attorney. Over the next two months, Alaska Dispatch investigated Miller's work history, his statements, and his battles with the Alaska Republican Party. Along the way, lawsuits were filed, a journalist was handcuffed, and untold stories emerged. (Read the coverage)

The float plane carrying a pilot and eight passengers in search of silver salmon, including former Sen. Ted Stevens, apparently crashed about 15 minutes after takeoff from a fishing lodge near Dillingham, witnesses told federal accident investigators Tuesday.

Twenty-one years ago, an oil spill to rival the Exxon Valdez smeared the Gulf of Mexico. The Deepwater Horizon disaster has ramifications for Alaska, where Shell and other companies are looking to drill in the Arctic. Will the Gulf spill slow their plans? And what lessons have we learned from Exxon Valdez that might help those dealing with the Gulf spill today? (Ongoing coverage)

Lance Mackey makes history, pulling into Nome at 2:59 p.m. Tuesday, clocking the second fastest finish on the books and becoming the first musher ever to win four Iditarods in a row.

When a caribou herd wandered close to Point Hope in summer 2008, hunters pursued the animals as they have for generations. But something went wrong. Caribou were killed and left to rot.

Three embedded student journalists and a professor from UAF report from Iraq’s Diyala Province.

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Investigating 8(a) contracting