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Star, a pet reindeer, is shown in the backyard of his owner Albert Whitehead in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, on March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

Iconic pet reindeer in Alaska falls mysteriously ill after someone tampers in his pen

A beloved reindeer in Alaska’s biggest city is fighting for his life after falling mysteriously falling ill after someone tampered with his pen. Star is well-known in Anchorage.

This image provided by Alaska Volcano Observatory shows the summit of Mount Spurr on Oct. 24, 2024, in Alaska. (Wyatt Mayo/Alaska Volcano Observatory, U.S. Geological Survey via AP, File)

A volcano near Alaska’s largest city could erupt in the coming weeks or months, scientists say

Japanese Trade Minister Yoji Muto speaks during a news conference on the tariffs of Japanese exports including cars and steel, in Washington, Monday, March 10, 2025. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan’s trade minister fails to win US assurances on tariff exemptions

Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum walks to the House Chamber before of President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Tribes and Native American students sue over Bureau of Indian Education firings

This March 29, 2005, photo shows a helicopter transporting skiers back to Girdwood, Alaska, at the end of a day of heli-skiing. (Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News via AP)

Experts and recovery teams hope to reach site of Alaska avalanche that buried 3 skiers

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FILE - A police officer wears an Axon body camera on March 28, 2024, at Chugiak High School in Anchorage, Alaska. (Loren Holmes/Anchorage Daily News via AP File)

Police fatally shoot teen in Alaska’s largest city, the fourth such killing since mid-May

Alaska appeals court clears way to challenge juvenile life sentences

This image taken with a drone and provided by Richard Ross shows shows high water around homes and neighborhoods following an outburst of flooding from a lake dammed by the Mendenhall Glacier, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, in Juneau, Alaska. (Richard Ross via AP)

An estimated 290 residences damaged by flooding from lake dammed by Alaska glacier, officials say

This photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley as it follows a Russian Federation naval ship south of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, on Monday, Aug. 5, 2024. (U.S. Coast Guard via AP)

US Coast Guard patrol spots Russian military ship off Alaska islands

FILE - A truck drives on an ice bridge constructed near the Colville-Delta 5, or as it's more commonly known, CD5, drilling site on Alaska's North Slope, Feb. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)

An industrial Alaska community near the Arctic Ocean hits an unusually hot 89 degrees this week

This image taken with a drone and provided by Richard Ross shows shows high water around homes and neighborhoods following an outburst of flooding from a lake dammed by the Mendenhall Glacier, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, in Juneau, Alaska. (Richard Ross via AP)

Residents in Alaska capital clean up swamped homes after an ice dam burst and unleashed a flood

This image taken with a drone and provided by Richard Ross shows shows high water around homes and neighborhoods following an outburst of flooding from a lake dammed by the Mendenhall Glacier, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, in Juneau, Alaska. (Richard Ross via AP)

Picturesque glacier releases water down a river in Alaska. More than 100 homes are damaged

Family of 4 from Texas missing after boat capsizes in Alaska, report says

The day of the school's closure is marked on a calendar as children, including Mariah Wallen, 5, march in a circle to music in the Stars classroom at the Meadow Lakes CCS Early Learning, a Head Start center, Monday, May 6, 2024, in Wasilla, Alaska. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

This preschool in Alaska changed lives for parents and kids alike. Why did it have to close?

In this image provided by the Alaska SeaLife Center, Alaska SeaLife Center Animal Care Specialist Maddie Welch, left, and Veterinary Technician Jessica Davis feed an orphaned female Pacific walrus calf on Monday, July 22, 2024, in Seward, Alaska. The rescued calf arrived at the center from Utqiagvik, Alaska. Activities permitted by USFWS LOA-PER0051451. (Kaiti Grant/Alaska SeaLife Center, USFWS LOA-PER0051451 via AP)

Rescued walrus calf ‘sassy’ and alert after seemingly being left by her herd in Alaska

Former U.S. Army medical technician Louis M. Gigliotti tours the Alaska Veterans Museum following his recognition ceremony in Anchorage, Alaska, July 19, 2024. The 103-year-old WW II veteran who’s been paying his medical bills out-of-pocket for nearly eight decades is finally getting his veterans benefits from the U.S. government after 78 years. (Balinda O'Neal/Alaska National Guard via AP)

An Alaska veteran is finally getting his benefits — 78 years after the 103-year-old was discharged

FILE - Deborah Moody, an administrative clerk at the Alaska Division of Elections office in Anchorage, Alaska, looks at an oversized booklet explaining election changes in the state, Jan. 21, 2022. An initiative aimed at repealing Alaska's ranked choice voting system still has sufficient signatures to qualify for the November 2024 ballot, attorneys for the state said Tuesday, July 23, 2024, days after a judge disqualified some of the booklets that were used to gather signatures. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)

Measure aimed at repealing Alaska’s ranked voting system still qualifies for ballot, officials say

Search called off for small airplane that went missing in fog and rain over southeast Alaska

Alaska police and US Coast Guard searching for missing plane with 3 people onboard

FILE - Deborah Moody, an administrative clerk at the Alaska Division of Elections office in Anchorage, Alaska, looks at an oversized booklet explaining election changes in the state on Jan. 21, 2022. A state court judge has disqualified a number of booklets used to gather signatures for an initiative that aims to repeal Alaska's ranked choice voting system.(AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)

Alaska election officials to recalculate signatures for ranked vote repeal measure after court order

Alaska election officials to recalculate signatures for ranked vote repeal measure after court order

Customers wait in line at departure area for Spirit Airlines at LaGuardia Airport, Friday, July 19, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

A faulty software update causes havoc worldwide for airlines, hospitals and governments

FILE - The James M. Fitzgerald U.S. Courthouse and Federal Building in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, is pictured on Wednesday, July 10, 2024. Prosecutors said former U.S. District Court Judge Joshua Kindred of Alaska, who resigned after a scathing investigation found he had engaged in inappropriate conduct with staff and attorneys, did not disclose conflicts of interest in 23 criminal cases before him. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)

Alaska judge who resigned in disgrace didn’t disclose conflicts in 23 cases, investigation finds

FILE - Visitors to Point Woronzof Park watch the sun set over Cook Inlet and Mount Susitna, on June 7, 2013, in Anchorage, Alaska. A federal judge on Tuesday, July 16, 2024, has suspended the lone lease stemming from a 2022 oil and gas lease sale in Alaska's Cook Inlet basin after finding problems with the environmental review the sale was based on. (AP Photo/Dan Joling, File)

US judge suspends Alaska Cook Inlet lease, pending additional environmental review

FILE - Kansas high school students, family members and advocates rally for transgender rights, Jan. 31, 2024, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. On Tuesday, July 2, a federal judge in Kansas blocked a federal rule expanding anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ students from being enforced in four states, including Kansas and a patchwork of places elsewhere across the nation. (AP Photo/John Hanna, File)

An order blocking a rule to help LGBTQ+ kids applies to hundreds of schools. Some want to block more

FILE - Brian Steven Smith watches proceedings during the opening day of his double murder trial, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024, in Anchorage, Alaska. On Friday, July 12, 2024, Smith, who killed two Alaska Native women and was heard while videotaping the 2019 torture death of one say that in his movies “everybody always dies,” was sentenced to 226 years in prison. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)

Man gets 226 years in deaths of 2 Alaska Native women. He filmed the torture of one

In this photo provided by Japan’s Joint Staff Office, the Chinese navy’s Shandong carrier task force is seen from the Japanese destroyer Akebono, on July 9, 2024, in the Philippine Sea. Four Chinese military ships were spotted in the Bering Sea off Alaska on July 10, 2024, a week after the Chinese navy began its annual joint patrol with the Russian navy in the Pacific Ocean. (Japan’s Joint Staff Office via AP)

US Coast Guard patrol spots Chinese naval ships off Alaska island

People walk toward the James M. Fitzgerald U.S. Courthouse and Federal Building in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, Wednesday, July 10, 2024. U.S. District Court Judge Joshua Kindred of Alaska has resigned and could face impeachment after having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a clerk who later became an assistant U.S. Attorney and then repeatedly lying about it to investigators, a judicial investigation found. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

Trump-appointed judge in Alaska resigns over sexual misconduct, leaving only 1 judge in state

FILE - Cruise ships are shown near downtown Juneau on June 7, 2023, along the Gastineau Channel, in Alaska. Voters in Alaska's capital city could decide in October whether to ban large cruise ships on Saturdays starting next year. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, File)

An Alaska tourist spot will vote whether to ban cruise ships on Saturdays to give locals a break

FILE - The U.S. Justice Department sign is seen, Nov. 18, 2022, in Washington. Educators in Kansas’ largest public school district discriminated against Black and disabled students when they used certain kinds of discipline, according to the U.S. Justice Department, which announced an agreement Tuesday, July 2, 2024, in which the district has agreed to revise its policies. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Discipline used in Kansas’ largest school district was discriminatory, the Justice Department says

Study says Alaska’s Juneau icefield is losing snow 4.6 times faster than it was in the 1980s

FILE - A flare burns at Venture Global LNG in Cameron, La., April 21, 2022. What would be the nation's largest export terminal for liquified natural gas won approval from a federal commission Thursday, June27, 2024 although when the southwest Louisiana project will be completed remains unclear in light of a Biden administration delay on such projects announced earlier this year. (AP Photo/Martha Irvine, File)

Judge sides with 16 states, putting on pause Biden’s delay of consideration of gas export projects

This photo provided by the National Park Service shows a wildfire burning about a mile north of Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska, on June 30, 2024, as seen from a tourist area outside the park that's home to hotels, gift shops and restaurants. The fire prompted the national park into a temporary closure Monday. (National Park Service via AP)

Wildfire forces Alaska’s Denali National Park to temporarily close entrance

Alaska Supreme Court overturns lower court and allows correspondence school law to stand

Federal agency plans to prohibit bear baiting in national preserves in Alaska