Something wondrous happened while Anchorage drooped under all that depressing rain this summer: The city's beleaguered birch trees lapped up water and got healthier.
With all our cloudy nights, our glowing street lights and bright banners of aurora borealis polluting the darkness, Anchorage offers little opportunity for stargazing. But wait a few years.
Six executives for the Veco Corp., the company named in the federal investigation into political corruption in Alaska, donated at least $119,000 to the campaigns of candidates running for more than half the seats open in this year's primary election.
Daily News reporter Stephanie Komarnitsky and her husband, photographer Stephen Nowers, tried to eat only locally grown and raised food for a week. Can two grocery-store addicts embrace an all-Alaska diet? See what they found out. In Part 4 of four, the couple serve both local and Outside poultry at a dinner party. Can their guests tell the difference?
