One person was killed in a house fire at Sitka.

Fire Chief Dave Miller says the body was found in an apartment Thursday after firefighters had knocked down flames.

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DEPOE BAY, Ore. – Whale watchers on the Oregon coast spotted more whales this winter season than in any of the past five, and the massive mammals are still passing by.

The Empire Outdoors page is looking for superb images of Alaska’s wildlife, scenery or plant life.

FAIRBANKS – Abbie West looked a little bit embarrassed when she saw the number in her hand.

Couch potatoes, it is time for the yearly event that marks the end of the professional football season, one that makes viewers cringe with hard-hitting, fast-moving, over-paid athletes consuming our time in between the life-blood of America – advertising. Sunday marks the 44th (XLIV for those who actually passed Latin) annual Commercial Bowl!!!

The body plan of weasels and many of their relatives in the family Mustelidae is basically a long, slender cylinder with four short legs. Their body sizes vary, and some are more chunkily built than others, but the basic plan remains. And that body plan is not well suited to cold climates. The long, narrow body has a high surface area to volume ratio: a relatively large surface area from which body heat can be lost but a relatively small volume of tissue (muscle and organs) that generates heat. The differential between surface area and volume is especially marked in animals whose total body size is small.

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.

Longtime Juneau resident Dr. Fred Chu died peacefully on Jan. 30, 2010, at Bartlett Regional Hospital. He was 56. He came to Juneau in 1988 and practiced medicine at the SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium until he became ill in 2005.

It doesn’t get much better behind the arc.