http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/alaska/deering/ Deering, AK News http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/alaska/deering/content/76fe0b6ad54642e242fae52e332dd1ac.html Aside from a few scattered locations across the state the weather was warmer than normal for September by a margin of about onehalf to two degrees Fahrenheit http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/alaska/deering/content/3e3eee7f1a505c23ce7bd80f59bda3f8.html The North Pole Patriots and Barrow Whalers will play on Friday while the Eielson Ravens will play late Saturday afternoon when the state high school football playoffs resume this weekend at the Anchorage Football Stadium http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/alaska/deering/content/a657b823eaeb4c1ed0b0b4d9131cb467.html POPULATION: 724 2007 http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/alaska/deering/content/012437686705432c589cb0ef3b836fca.html Two promising young woman mushers have pulled out of the 2009 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/alaska/deering/content/539bc04c57e7a88e1736eb06e31d56c5.html Eagle River's Myka Hiura scrambled for a 35yard touchdown in Friday's 1413 win over Dimond in conference quarterfinals http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/alaska/deering/content/97edae6830c6ff5bb5b0fcc7f384a560.html Step aside Scott Gomez Another Alaskan who makes his living on frozen water has invaded the Big Apple http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/alaska/deering/content/010e2fac3e37de4c1741ffc53655f26c.html KOTZEBUE A 35yearold Noorvik man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for sexual abuse of a minor http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/alaska/deering/content/7558f983a2cb90cfcebb09069f7c88be.html To people in this hardscrabble region tucked between two soaring mountain ranges Gov Sarah Palin is a workingclass heroine As the Republican vice presidential candidate's star rises nationally she's increasingly held up as the model for life in the Last Frontier Palin and her husband Todd a champion snowmobiler racer have all the trappings of that life: a coveted permit to fish salmonrich Bristol Bay a vast gun collection a vintage floatplane and a fleet of gaspowered vehicles to roar through the wilderness