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Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she now supports gay marriage, becoming the third Senate Republican to do so.

More than 1 million cruise passengers will travel to Alaska between now and September, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t deals to be had - we’ve got the EDGE on the best economical ways to visit our 49th state.

Adventure seekers brave sub-zero temperatures to witness Alaska’s Northern Lights during a peak in the solar cycle.

The lieutenant governor of Alaska has filed a regulation that will make it easier for transgender drivers to change their sex on their license after the ACLU challenged a requirement that forced transgender individuals to prove they had undergone surgery.

Anchorage residents are apparently not dressing to impress. That’s the upshot of Travel and Leisure Magazine’s reader poll, which put the residents of Alaska’s largest city at the bottom when it comes to being on the top of style.

An Anchorage, AK, anti-gay group that opposes Prop. 5 (a measure that would add sexual orientation and gender identity to the city’s anti-discrimination laws) posted a cartoon video that attacks the LGBT community.

LGBT supporters in Alaska have raised more than $230,000 for an initiative that would add sexual orientation and gender identity to the Anchorage’s anti-discrimination laws. Those opposing the measure have earned less than $5,000.

Among the thousands of colorful potatoes - from yellow German Butterballs to Magic Mollys with flesh so purple it’s nearly black - is a half-row of red potatoes with yellow flesh that University of Alaska researchers believe could become popular.

The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the state of Alaska on behalf of a transgender woman, alleging that it denied her a driver’s license listing her gender as female unless she provided proof that she’d undergone a sex change operation.

A gay pride parade in downtown Anchorage on Saturday was canceled after a convertible carrying the grand marshal fatally struck a man, authorities said.