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Alaska City Honors Guardsmen Killed in Crash after '64 Quake

The four Alaska National Guardsmen were killed when their plane crashed during a heavy snowstorm.

This Sept. 3, 2008, file photo shows Track Palin, son of Sarah Palin during the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. Track Palin was formally accepted into a diversion court program Tuesday, June 19, 2018, after assaulting his father, the former first gentleman of the state of Alaska, so severely it left him bleeding from the head. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Palin's Son Moves to Veterans Court Program After Assaulting Father

Track Palin was formally accepted into a diversion court program Tuesday after assaulting his father.

Army Vet, Community Band Conductor Makes Alaska His Home

Greg Balvanz retired to Fairbanks after serving there during his Army career.

August 1943: A bugler sounds taps during a memorial service on Attu Island. May 30 will mark the 75th anniversary of U.S. forces recapturing the island in Alaska's Aleutian chain from Japanese forces. It was the only World War II battle fought on North American soil. (AP Photo)

WWII Battle of Attu Island Still Haunts Those Who Fought There

The fight for Attu Island was the only World War II battle fought on North American soil.

A Paradigm Marine excavator conducts beach-tilling operations to release trapped oil in the inter-tidal zone at a spill site on Shuyak Island near Kodiak, Alaska, April 7, 2018. (U.S. Coast Guard photo/Alaska Chadux Corporation)

Coast Guard Denies Giving OK to Store Fuel over Beach

The operator of a remote Alaska lodge that was the site of a serious oil spill says he had Coast Guard permission.

The Coast Guard Cutter Douglas Munro sits at its homeport in Kodiak, Alaska, Nov. 27, 2017. The Douglas Munro is a 378-foot high endurance cutter named after Medal of Honor recipient, Coast Guard Signalman First Class Douglas A. Munro. (U.S. Coast Guard photo/Charly Hengen)

Coast Guard Says Alaska to Homeport 6 Fast Response Cutters

The Coast Guard will station six fast response cutters in Alaska communities.

A Royal Canadian DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft waits on a runway after delivering supplies and personnel to Ice Camp Skate during Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2018. (U.S. Navy photo/Kelly Willett)

Airplane Strikes Man During Navy's Polar Ice Exercise

A man suffered head injuries when he was struck by an airplane in Alaska's Beaufort Sea during Navy exercises.

This 2016 photo provided by the U.S. Navy, shows a submarine after breaking through ice in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska's north coast. The U.S. Navy has kicked off biennial submarine testing and training under sea ice off Alaska's north coast--the exercises are dubbed Ice Exercise 2018, or ICEX18, and will include maneuvers by three submarines under Arctic ice, including a British vessel, over five weeks. (U.S. Navy via AP)

Navy Starts Under-Ice Submarine Exercise off Alaska's Coast

The U.S. Navy has begun five weeks of submarine training and testing off Alaska's north coast.

USAF Vet Mike Shower Appointed to Open Alaska Senate Seat

Mike Shower is retired from the U.S. Air Force and is a pilot with FedEx.

Army soldiers build a shelter at the Northern Warfare Training Center in Alaska. Marines may start training there, too. (DoD photo/Michael O'Brien)

Marines May Go to Alaska for Cold-Weather Training

The Marine Corps has already taken steps to improve training for Marines deploying to Norway.

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Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson, right, and Air Force Chief of Staff David L. Goldfein, center, speak with 386th Air Expeditionary Wing Airmen and joint coalition partners during a town hall event held at the base theater, Aug. 20, 2017, in an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia. (U.S. Air Force photo/Jonathan Hehnly)

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A security forces technician assigned to the 180th Fighter Wing, Ohio Air National Guard, conducts live-fire training using the M-240B, a belt-felt, gas-operated machine gun that shoots 7.62mm rounds, April 18, 2018. (Air National Guard photo/John Wilkes)

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