Grizzly bears love pastries, can be 50 percent body fat and spend nearly half the year sleeping.

A coordinator for the Tea Party Express is calling the group’s expulsion over a controversial blog posting by one of its spokesmen “arrogant and preposterous.”

Searchers have found the body of an Anchorage teenager who tumbled off an embankment into a river whirlpool.

Jessica Williams decides to just jerk her chum salmon catch onto the dock, by-passing net man Roy Williams and surprising Kay Lana, 4, and Darian Kowalcik, 5, at the dock by DIPAC on Sunday.

A young tourist tries to touch chum salmon swimming up Salmon Creek on Sunday. The stream is filled with chum, eagles and seagulls as the summer season salmon runs start to hit the spawning grounds.

Juneau Police and Fire reported:

Single sculler Colleen Sullivan moves along Gastineau Channel Saturday morning for a brisk tune-up to start the day. The Juneau Rowing Club will host its annual summer regatta on Saturday. The Gastineau Channel Challenge Regatta, a 1,000-meter course, features two races, one for men and one for women, and is open for rowers of all ages and abilities. The finish line is the end of the sailing club’s dock in Gastineau Channel.

The Juneau Juniors are steamrolling into the championship series of the District 2 All-Stars baseball tournament after defeating host Wrangell, Sitka and Ketchikan by a combined score of 50-5 over the weekend in round-robin play.

JUNEAU – The lone Democrat in Alaska’s U.S. House race raised more than $12,600 during the last quarter.

JUNEAU – Republican Joe Miller, who received Sarah Palin’s endorsement in his bid to upset U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, raised about $111,000 last quarter.