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Santa Claus · Yakutat

Santa and Mrs. Claus use military transports to bring Christmas to an Alaska Native village

78% Center coverage: 18 sources

YAKUTAT, Alaska (AP) — Forget the open-air sleigh overloaded with gifts and powered by flying reindeer. Santa and Mrs. Claus this week took supersized rides to southeast Alaska in a C-17 military cargo plane and a camouflaged Humvee, as they delivered toys to the Tlingit village of Yakutat, northwest of Juneau. The visit was part of this year’s Operation Santa Claus, an outreach program of the Alaska National Guard to largely Indigenous communit…See the Story

Alaska Politics · Juneau

Alaska governor asks Trump to roll back restrictions on oil and gas drilling

50% Center coverage: 16 sources

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Animals · Alaska

The 'Blob,' an unprecedented marine heat wave, killed 4 million seabirds

46% Center coverage: 13 sources

The common murre, a large black-and-white seabird native to northern waters, has become far less common in Alaska over the past decade due to the impacts of climate change. See the Story

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