Photos: Father's Day Rodeo in Anchorage and other top stories.

• Photos: Father's Day Rodeo in Anchorage

  

  Buy This Photo Weston Lacey, 3, gets help from his father Lance Lacey putting his spurs on before the competed in the Mutton Busting and Chute Dogging events during the Rodeo Alaska Father's Day Rodeo at the William Clark Chamberlin Equestrian Center in Anchorage on Sunday, June 18, 2017. (Bill Roth / Alaska Dispatch News)

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• Two Anchorage men drown when boat capsizes near Resurrection ...

  

  Troopers identified the dead as Benjamin Jimenez, 53, of Anchorage and Ferdinand Salvador, 43, of Anchorage.

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• Juneteenth celebration back in Anchorage

  

  Juneteenth celebration back in Anchorage By KTVA Web Staff 1:55 PM June 18, 2017 The Fairview Lions Park hosted Juneteenth in Anchorage Saturday. The name and date recognize when slaves in Texas discovered they were free in June of 1865, a month after the Civil War ended and more than two years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Event organizer Jasmin Smith said she remembers attending Juneteenth in Anchorage as a child and happy it’s back now that she’s an adu..

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• Anchorage memorial remembers lives lost in gay attack

  

  Anchorage memorial remembers lives lost in gay attack By Heather Hintze 6:59 PM June 18, 2017 For 44 years, people in Anchorage have come together to commemorate a horrific attack on the gay community. The Pride Memorial remembers 32 people killed when a fire ripped through the upstairs of a New Orleans’ French Quarter lounge. At the time it was the largest killing of gay people in history. Today, a small group gathered at the Anchorage cemetery and read the names of those killed in th..

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• Municipality of Anchorage looks into on-site health clinic to drive ...

  

  The Anchorage city government is looking to save money on health care costs by hiring a Seattle-based company to run a medical clinic for some of its employees, much as the Anchorage School District did a few months ago. Anchorage Municipal Manager Mike Abbott said Tuesday that the city was in negotiations with the company, Vera Whole Health, to create a primary care clinic to serve about 1,500 employees and their families on the municipality's self-funded health insurance plan. Ona B..

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• Skinny Raven's boutique, Her Tern, to close this summer

  

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• BREAKING: Teen dies after being mauled by bear

  

  ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - A parent's worst nightmare came to life this Father's Day when a teen running an annual trail race was fatally mauled by a bear near Bird Creek. Law enforcement officials and fellow competitors said a 16-year-old boy was participating in the Robert Spurr Memorial Hill Climb at Bird Ridge, which was being run for the 29th year straight. Dozens of runners, including the teen, toed the starting line that morning. The mountain race begins at the start of Bird Creek Trail, and me..

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• Anchorage golfer has fond memories of US Open course

  

  Anchorage – Rolling hills, gorgeous views — those are among the things you notice at Wisconsin’s Erin Hills Golf Course. Some of the reasons it’s hosting the U.S. Open for the first time. Tom Farris is the head professional at the Anchorage Golf Course. He spent a good part of his life near Erin Hills, and also played it. “It’s an amazing experience, there’s no golf carts there, it’s all caddies,” Farris told KTVA Sports. The golf course stretches more than 8,000 yards from start to finish. Er..

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• Anchorage's students with disabilities get out-of-school suspensions ...

  

  In its data, the Anchorage School District defines "students with disabilities" as those who qualify for a variety of special education services because of conditions that include autism, emotional disturbances, deafness, blindness, intellectual deficiencies and others. That definition is set in federal law.

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• Evidence of oil pushes Doyon drilling campaign forward

  

  "No one has spent lot of time in this basin before so we are on the front end of trying to understand things," said Jim Mery, Doyon senior vice president of lands and natural resources. "But we clearly know there's an active petroleum system. We know there's a lot of gas in the basin, and there may indeed be oil as well."

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