By MEGAN HOLLAND, Anchorage Daily News

A year into her new life roaming a California sanctuary with other elephants, Alaska's favorite expat shows every sign of enjoying it. She trumpets, knocks down trees and calls for her companions when they wander too far, say her new keepers.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- If Anchorage continues killing at the current pace, the city may set a record for dead bears this year thanks to unplanned run-ins with humans. As of Wednesday, 17 bears had been killed in Anchorage, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Fifteen were black bears; two were brown.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Prisoners are wiping down doorknobs with bleach. Guards are wearing plastic gloves whenever they touch anything inside a cell. And inmates are telling other inmates to go see a doctor when a rash shows up on their skin.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A man accused of chopping up a friend and putting the body parts in his grandmother's freezer last year is now charged with two-dozen counts of sexual assault against a fellow jail prisoner.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Eagle River High School students stood out in a frigid minus-11 degrees Monday morning for a quarter of an hour after a chemistry lab experiment set off the building's fire alarm and they evacuated without coats, hats or gloves. Some wore only their gym clothes.