In a story perfect to tell with a "spooky" voice when things get quiet at your next social gathering, a grieving Alaskan couple about to inform their son's girlfriend of his death was shocked this week when their "dead" son answered the door. Ahh!

The police report from that drunken Palin family brawl last month is finally out, and Bristol is reportedly claiming a neighbor called her insulting names, then knocked her down and dragged her around a lawn.

When you're Sarah Palin and you get clocked doing 63 in a 45, there are lots of good responses to give reporters: "It was dumb, won't do it again." "I was in a hurry, won't do it again." "Why do you think this is news? Won't do it again." But then, if you're Sarah Palin, you're gonna go another way.

Alaska will soon become the second state to give away free pregnancy tests in bars. The program, organized by Healthy Brains For Children, is intended to reduce fetal alcohol syndrome in Alaska, which has the highest rate of the condition in the country.

Cherelle "Evie" LaGrou, 18, was telling her mother on the phone that she was worried about the uneven terrain she was hiking when she fell 30 feet on an Alaskan mountain. Her mother could hear her scream as she fell. LaGrou survived with just a few minor cuts and was later rescued by state troopers.

In the Land of the Midnight Sun, the last frontier, the land of Sarah Palin, it's hard to distinguish oneself from the crowd of conservative anti-government candidates for government office. But Dan Sullivan has a plan: Take over federal parklands, drill for oil, and maybe get heroically shot.

One night in 2009 an Alaskan state trooper picked up the incident file from a domestic violence arrest he'd made earlier in the day and texted the victim. They met up and had sex in his car. And on Wednesday, the Alaska Supreme Court said: kind of icky, but not against "public policy"!

Mark Begich, Alaska's lone Democratic senator, is up for re-election this year, and if the political winds are to be believed, his opponent may be someone very, very familiar.

Pro tip: If you don't know for sure whether the supermarket is open and don't have a Hamilton to wager on it, don't make a bet with the guys who share your Alaska trailer, because they might have a gun. And if the gun doesn't work, they might have a car-jack handle.

Police say an on-duty rural Alaskan cop got drunk and sent dozens of sexually charged text messages to a 12-year-old girl from a governmental cell phone.

On Monday night, a bear walked into an Alaskan bar. The bartender didn't want the bear in the bar, and told the bear to leave: "No bear! Get out! No! You can't be in here!" The bear agreed and left.

The world's most famous feline mayor remains in critical condition today after being mauled by a dog while strolling through his hometown of Talkeetna, Alaska.

Reader Aileen, in an email whose subject provides the headline of this post, alerts us to a slideshow of a bear riding a Sea-Doo on the website of the Alaska Dispatch, by guide/photographer Graham Morrison. Please enjoy.

When a six-year-old boy in Alaska climbed onto the roof of his parents' van as it sat in their driveway, he probably wasn't expecting to take a ride along a highway while still atop the van. Unfortunately, for the boy and his parents, that's just what happened, and the boy fell from the van's roof after three miles.

Just before the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski made a clear endorsement of marriage equality. Murkowski, a Senator since 2002, joins two other Republicans in the Senate (Rob Portman of Ohio and Mark Kirk of Illinois), in supporting the rights of gay and lesbian couples to marry.

The saddest thing is a baby polar bear in Alaska waiting and waiting for his mom to come home, but the mom never comes home because a hunter killed her, for sport. And this will always be the saddest children's story, because now the lonesome motherless bear is condemned to live forever in a zoo, in Buffalo.

Police in Unalaska, Alaska, were dispatched to a Safeway parking lot last week when dozens of Bald Eagles, America's proud national bird, swarmed on a pickup truck to eat disgusting fish parts from trash bags in the truck's bed.

On Saturday, a double amputee driving a motorized shopping cart reportedly shot a Wal-Mart employee in his stomach after the employee asked the legless man to put a leash on his service dog. The double amputee then attempted to flee the scene on the motorized cart, making it to the store's front door before being…

Considering the hyped-up, half-assed shit the TSA forces you to go through before your typical flight, making a bomb-related joke at the airport probably isn't the best move. But, according to the AP, flier Peter Friesema didn't let a thing like common sense get in the way of potential comedy gold and apparently made…