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Voting has started in the annual Fat Bear Week contest at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve, with viewers picking their favorite among a dozen brown bears fattened up to survive the winter.

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Online voting in Alaska's Fat Bear Week contest starts after an attack killed 1 contestant
By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press
Wed,10/02/24-12:12AM , 57 Reads
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Let the chunk-off begin.
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Two students view a memorial as the flags fly half-staff after a shooting Wednesday at Apalachee High School, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024, in Winder, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

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What we know after a 14-year-old boy was charged with killing 4 people at his Georgia high school.
By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press
Fri,09/06/24-11:07PM , 89 Reads
A 14-year-old boy stands charged with four counts of murder, accused of using a semiautomatic assault-style rifle to kill two students and two teachers this week at his high school in Georgia.
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This weekend youth from across Alaska are participating in The Native Youth Olympics, a three-day celebration of Indigenous culture in the form of games that mimic hunting and survival techniques that Alaska Natives in the Arctic region have relied on for thousands of years. (AP Video by Mark Thiessen)

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Alaska's Indigenous teens emulate ancestors' Arctic survival skills at the Native Youth Olympics
By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press
Sat,04/27/24-2:36PM , 143 Reads
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The athletes filling a huge gym in Anchorage were ready to compete, cheering and stomping and high-fiving each other as they lined up for the chance to claim the state's top prize in their events.
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A police vehicle is parked outside Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho, on March 20, 2024. Two members of an Idaho white supremacist prison gang, an inmate and the man accused of helping him escape in an armed ambush at a Boise hospital, are due in court for a preliminary hearing Monday, April 8, along with a woman who is accused of providing a vehicle they used during their 36 hours on the run. (Sarah A. Miller/Idaho Statesman via AP, File)

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Hospital video captures armed escape of Idaho white supremacist prison gang member from hospital
By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press
Sun,04/07/24-11:46PM , 162 Reads
Security video captured most of an ambush at an Idaho hospital that left three corrections officers with gunshot wounds and allowed a white supremacist prison gang member to escape, a police detective testified Monday.
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