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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Lars Hanson

    It’s in the bag: Fat Bear Week crowns its 2026 champ (opens the original)

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    KATMAI, Alaska (KTUU) - The bear who wasn’t supposed to make the final just carried the whole thing. Bear 89, better known as “Backpack,” is the 2026 Fat Bear Week champion, beating Bear 910 by 103,344 votes to 98,253 when polls closed Tuesday at fatbearweek.org. It came down to a margin of 5,091 votes in the 12th annual tournament, where the internet decides which of Katmai’s brown bears did the best job getting enormous before winter. It’s a fitting finish for a bear who spent much of Monday l

  2. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Lars Hanson

    Alaska firefighting pilot killed in California crash comes home to Palmer (opens the original)

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    ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Nine days after he died fighting a wildfire in California, helicopter pilot Greg King is coming home. Emergency responders, agency partners and community members will line the road from Anchorage toward Palmer shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday for an honor procession, the Alaska Department of Public Safety said. The procession will depart near Raspberry Road and travel north on Minnesota Drive, east on Sixth Avenue and out the Glenn Highway toward Palmer. It will then turn

  3. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Lars Hanson

    Hundreds cheer as rescued Alaska seals return to the wild (opens the original)

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    KENAI, Alaska (KTUU) - Hundreds of people lined Kenai’s North Beach to watch two rehabilitated harbor seals waddle back into the water, closing out a rescue season that leaned on pilots, conservation workers and volunteers across the state. Stanley Sealton and Ester, the last of the center’s 2026 harbor seal cohort, were released together, marking the end of a summer of round-the-clock care for animals that arrived starving, sick and, in Ester’s case, alone on a remote mudflat. “My goodness, it

  4. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Lars Hanson

    19-year-old killed after crashing ATV into shipping container in Togiak (opens the original)

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    TOGIAK, Alaska (KTUU) - Alaska State Troopers are investigating a fatal ATV crash in Togiak that killed a 19-year-old man early Friday. Troopers were notified of the single-vehicle crash at 2:23 a.m. Friday. Togiak Police and an on-call health aide responded and found the driver, identified by troopers as Tyler Lee Maines, dead at the scene. Troopers arrived later that morning to investigate. They determined Maines’ ATV hit a Conex container at a high rate of speed, according to the agency. Main

  5. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Lars Hanson

    Fat Bear Week Round 1, Part 1 wraps: The bracket is shrinking, the bears aren’t (opens the original)

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    ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Day one of Fat Bear Week didn’t go as planned. Katmai National Park and Preserve announced this week that voting had to be extended after a “record-breaking” wave of fans flooded the polls on opening day, overwhelming the servers hosting the 12th annual tournament. Explore.org, which hosts the online tournament, confirmed the meltdown in a Facebook post: “We had our biggest Day 1 turnout of all time and experienced some system overload.” The organization said votes alr

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