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LION'S HEAD -- "When we come up around the next bend ..." rafting guide Dan Fowlds yelled over the gush of the white-capped waves, "we want to keep to the left because of a rock in the center."
Watch a short video of rafters on the Matanuska River

Voices unleashed
Native orators gain confidence and popularity thanks to dedication of UAA professor

(Published: May 1, 2003)
That man behind the newspaper at the burger joint, if only he could know the poetic justice that's come of his cruelty.
Watch an excerpt of Quentin Simeon's winning oratory
Watch Quentin Simeon's winning oratory, 'Mother Hugger'

Seeking Miracles
People in need of healing flock to traveling evangelists' revivals

(Published: March 2, 2003)
The spirit was growing stronger. Christian Harfouche sensed as much about halfway through the first night of his 10-day Miracle Rally at the Anchorage Native Assembly of God.
Watch a video showing the Feb. 18 Miracle Rally

Amchitka cancer risk 'low'
STUDY: Test site poses little risk to people even if nuclear residue leaks.

(Published: December 8, 2002)
The odds of a person contracting cancer caused by a nuclear leak at Amchitka Island are "infinitely low," according to a preliminary risk assessment performed by a U.S. Department of Energy contractor.
Project Cannikin Review - complete film
Excerpts from Project Cannikin Review film

Earth mover
'This is probably a once-in-a-lifetime event'

(Published: November 17, 2002)
The 7.9 earthquake that slammed the state two weeks ago and continues to tremble even now unzipped an extraordinary geologic scar through the Alaska Range. A horizon-spanning fracture tore open glaciers, sliced mountains and rumpled the landscape with startling new folds and cracks.
Earthquake Web sites
Watch a video showing the effects of the 7.9 earthquake

An Eye On Eagles
Hatchlings prepare for first flight

(Published: October 18, 2002)
A pair of bald eagle hatchlings caught the attention of Daily News photographer Bob Hallinen in South Anchorage in April. He visited their nest a dozen times over four months, sometimes sitting for as long as four hours.
Watch a video of bald eagles and their hatchlings
Watch a short video of the eagles' nest

Popular bear shot, killed on second floor of hotel
DEADHORSE: Male grizzly 'Toby' was a bit too adept at opening doors.

(Published: October 16, 2002)
Up in Deadhorse, they say Toby was just a popular bear gone bad, a grizzly doomed by a knack for opening doors -- and a taste for french fries.
Watch a short video of the grizzly bear in the hotel

Denali autumn
Annual fall lottery allows lucky few to drive scenic park road

(Published: September 29, 2002)
EIELSON VISITOR CENTER -- Back at the Polychrome Pass overlook, where we had huddled against a bitter wind in winter coats and hats, the park visitor in Hawaiian shorts seemed crazy, stupid or both.
Special Denali National Park photo gallery
Road Lottery Facts
Watch a video showing the end of summer in Denali
Watch a short video of wildlife in Denali

Sea enemies
Seeking answers to sea lion decline, experts turn their eyes to orcas

(Published: May 20, 2002)
As people watched from shore and federal biologists took pictures, a family of five killer whales body-slammed a Steller sea lion near a pier in Kodiak Harbor.
Killer whale and sea lion stories and Web links
Facts about killer whales and Steller sea lions
Watch a short orca slide show and video

On a roll
Serious fimmaker and duct tape fanatic Laura Bliss Spaan has a wacky streak that keeps going and going . . .

(Published: December 30, 2001)
Laura Bliss Spaan stares at the floor, pondering what looks to be the aftermath of a terrible automobile accident. A fender here, a manifold there. The skeletal remains of a bench seat, a threadbare tire and other assorted junkyard debris is scattered about, all coated in rust and generally looking a lot like tetanus.
Gotta be brief (with video clip)
Watch Laura Bliss Spaan's "Wrapsody in Silver"

Watt A Christmas (With Video Clip)

(Published: December 21, 2001)
Daily News elves fanned out across Anchorage last week to evaluate Christmas lights displays nominated by readers.
Ice lanterns light the night
Patriotic lights on the Hillside
Last year for a well-lit tradition
Christmas with a swing
Fireworks and the mother lode
Watch a short video of Anchorage holiday lights

Palmer teens win $25,000 grand prize in designer's contest (with video clip)
Earn Your Stars and Stripes' video coming to VH1

(Published: November 14, 2001)
Wasilla -- Three Palmer High School seniors are $25,000 richer after winning a national contest sponsored by clothing designer Tommy Hilfiger.
Watch an excerpt of "License to Dream"
Watch an excerpt of "Chaos Factor"

Atomic test one of largest in U.S. (with video clips)
AMCHITKA: The effects of Cannikin are still notable today.

(Published: November 7, 2001)
The dimensions of Cannikin, the underground test of a nuclear bomb on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians 30 years ago this week, remain staggering.
Excerpts from Project Cannikin Review film
Project Cannikin Review - complete film

Valley of wind (includes clips of wind storms)
Whipped by gusts and scoured by dust, towns keep heads down

(Published: July 16, 2001)
WASILLA -- Beth McKibben's lawn chair was supposed to be unbreakable.

Open season (includes clip of pike feeding)
Agency shows pike bursting with predatory enthusiasm

(Published: July 16, 2001)
The 2-inch trout had just been dropped into the aquarium holding two Northern pike captured last fall in Cheney Lake when, faster than an eye blink, a foot-long pike snatched one.

Bears in the Bowl (with clips of problem bruin)
Conflicts rise as Anchorage continues to grow into ursine habitat

(Published: July 16, 2001)
Early on a clear summer morning, a big thump shook a house on the Anchorage Hillside, startling its owner awake. At first, John Daley thought an earthquake was trembling his A-frame cabin off Upper DeArmoun Road. Then he looked out his bedroom window to the deck.

Video clips show Alaska's violent seas

(Published: July 16, 2001)
Alaska's commercial fishermen know a storm doesn't have to be perfect to be perilous.