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-SNIP-When police spoke with Oliphant, he allegedly said it wasn’t his first crash of the night. “Oliphant volunteered that he had also struck the Governor’s Mansion,” Sell wrote. “JPD contacted a security officer for the governor. It was determined that the garage door to the Governor’s Mansion was caved in.”

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Iditarod officials said a snowmachine attack on two top Iditarod teams has left one dog dead and several injured. Two Rivers musher Aliy Zirkle and Denali Park’s Jeff King reported a snowmachiner repeatedly attempted to harm their dog teams as they traveled to the Yukon River checkpoint of Nulato early Saturday morning. King’s team was struck, according to a press release from the Iditarod Trail Committee, resulting in the death of 3-year-old Nash and non-life threatening injuries to two others: 2-year-old Banjo and 3-year-old Crosby. A dog in Zirkle’s team also received a non-life threatening injury. The dog was not...

On a recent cold night, I decided to wash some dishes. My wife and I live in a little dry cabin up near Hatcher Pass, which is to say we don’t have running water. So I put a big pot on the propane stove to heat, rousted the dogs and took the 5-gallon bucket of dirty dishwater from under the sink to go dump it in the outhouse.

Do you recognize either of these women or their children from this Herald photo taken March 8, 1966? The Grand Forks Herald is attempting to contact them for a story.ey all have quite the story.

Next time you take a photo that you don’t like at first, don’t erase it; give it another chance. Just ask Michael Davies. The Canadian photographer based in the tiny hamlet of Pangnirtung, in Canada’s Arctic territory of Nunavut, almost deleted a picture that has now become an Internet sensation. The photo shows Davies’s friend, Markus Siivola, throwing hot tea into the air as he bends backwards. In the minus-40-degree weather, the hot water freezes and evaporates creating an almost magical mini-cloud.

It has often been cited as one of the classic examples of how changes in climate have shaped human history. Circa the year 985, Erik the Red led 25 ships from Iceland to Greenland, launching a Norse settlement there and giving the vast ice continent the name "Greenland." Within just a few decades, the Norse -- sometimes also dubbed Vikings -- would make it to Newfoundland as well. They maintained settlements of up to a few thousand people in southwest Greenland for several centuries, keeping livestock and hunting seals, building churches whose ruins still stand today, and sending back valuable...

JUNEAU -- Newly elected Mayor Greg Fisk died of natural causes Monday, and facial injuries that sparked rumors of an assault actually came from a fall, Juneau police said Wednesday. "The first assumption was someone had done something to him," said Bryce Johnson, Juneau police chief. An autopsy was conducted by the State Medical Examiner Office in Anchorage, Johnson told reporters at a press conference in Juneau Wednesday afternoon. Two Juneau detectives in Anchorage on other business attended the autopsy, he said. The cause of death has not been specified, but Fisk had a history of heart issues, Johnson said

Injuries found on Juneau mayor’s body; police await autopsy results Chris Klint| December 1, 2015 Share on email Email Print Juneau’s mayor had suffered injuries when his son found him dead Monday afternoon, investigators say. Stephen “Greg” Fisk, 70, was found dead inside his residence in downtown Juneau, according to Ian Fisk, who police say called dispatchers at 3:34 p.m. Monday. Juneau police spokeswoman Erann Kalwara said Tuesday that she couldn’t describe the injuries found on Fisk’s body due to the ongoing investigation. “The injuries could be characterized as signs of trauma,” Kalwara said. “He’s being sent for an autopsy,...

Alaska Airlines CEO Brad Tilden is one of the airline’s biggest boosters -- but he says his high-flying carrier let him down when he traveled to an industry summit. According to the Los Angeles Times, Tilden took an Alaska Airlines flight to Washington, D.C., last week. He arrived that day, but his bag didn’t -- and had to be delivered the next day. “The media is here and I'm hoping that you don't write this down and print it,” Tilden said. The airline offers $25 or 2,500 frequent-flier miles to passengers who don’t receive their bags within 20 minutes of...

The vast majority of Alaskans will be $2,072 richer when they receive their Permanent Fund dividend checks from the state next month, an amount unveiled at an event hosted by Gov. Bill Walker Monday.

OKLAHOMA CITY — An infamous fundraiser that involves shooting pigeons has taken down another flying object. A drone that was being used to film Senator Inhofe’s pigeon fundraiser was grounded Saturday. The annual fundraiser earns money for the senator as guests shoot at tame, banded pigeons as they’re thrown into the air. Showing Animals Respect and Kindness is an animal rights group that secretly filmed the fundraiser for Senator Jim Inhofe last year. This year, the group said they tried to use a drone to record the event Friday night in Greer County, but they reported the drone was shot...

An Oregon man was jailed and is facing charges after Port of Portland police say he urinated on several passengers on an early morning JetBlue flight from Anchorage to Portland International Airport Friday. According to CBS news affiliate KOIN6, police say Jeff D. Rubin, 27, had been asleep for most of the flight, which left Stevens International Airport in Anchorage around 12 a.m. About 30 minutes before landing in Portland, he stood up and began urinating between the crack in the seat in front of him and onto other passengers.

Kaktovik residents and visiting biologists worked together to free a large polar bear that became entangled in a fishing net near a Beaufort Sea barrier island Saturday night. The “large male” polar bear got stuck in a net near the North Slope village of about 300 people Saturday evening, the U.S. Geological

A hunter from Minnesota was cited for taking a caribou over bag limit in the Northwest Arctic after a bullet from his gun passed through the caribou that was his intended target and hit another caribou, killing it. Alaska Wildlife Troopers in Kotzebue cited Nathan Olson, 38, on Sept. 1, Alaska State Troopers wrote in an online dispatch Wednesday.

FARGO – A pair of NDSU students got quite the scare Monday night when armed Fargo police officers mistook their telescope for a rifle.

A golfer was transported to the hospital Thursday evening after he was bit twice in the leg by a rattlesnake at Bully Pulpit Golf Course in Medora. The Billings County Sheriff's Department said an EMS vehicle transported the man to CHI St. Joseph's Health, where he was treated.

UNALASKA -- Images of eagles cover postal service vehicles and uniforms nationwide, but in the Aleutian Islands, real live eagles are landing on the heads of customers picking up mail at the Dutch Harbor post office.

NINILCHIK -- Oil companies hire gun-toting bear guards to protect crews from attack, but a new wildlife problem arose a few years ago -- animals were snatching seismic nodes used in the search for oil and gas. That’s when now-retired bear guard Mark Chihuly -- who never went anywhere without his four-legged friend, Zipper -- decided to put the golden Lab on the case. Chihuly had the idea a few years ago because Zipper could find pretty much anything after a few minutes of training, even long-lost items buried deep in snow. At 8 years old, the pooch also has...

Escaped inmate Richard Matt was shot three times in the head and died from severe skull fractures and brain injuries, according to autopsy results released Sunday. Matt, a convicted murderer, was shot and killed Friday by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer after nearly three weeks on the run while hundreds of authorities searched for Matt and David Sweat, who broke free from Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York on June 6.