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1. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Kyle Hopkins

   Kaitlyn Kaganak was found dead by an Anchorage trail. Charges accuse a woman of helping dispose of her body. (opens the original)

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   Charges filed last week in state court accuse an Anchorage woman of helping to dispose of the body of Kaitlyn Kaganak late last year at an East Anchorage trailhead. The charges say another suspect in the same investigation died by suicide earlier this month. Melody Ramos-Snedden, 44, faces a felony count of evidence tampering and one count of “misconduct involving corpse,” a misdemeanor. She made a first court appearance Friday. Along with the death of Kelly Hunt, who disappeared Jan. 7, the

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2. Article · Jul 21, 2026 · Kyle Hopkins

   On nearly deserted Adak Island, you pay to keep hundreds of buildings wired for internet (opens the original)

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   This article was produced in partnership with ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network. ADAK — On an island in the Bering Sea 1,200 miles from Anchorage sits an abandoned house on an abandoned Navy base. There is no furniture, and the wind blows through broken windows. The last people to live here moved away long ago. Yet a bright orange pipe with a black fiber-optic cable inside runs from the outer wall down into the surrounding soil. The cable was installed to connect the home to the internet

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