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Master Gardener Ed Buyarski says gardeners can slow down weed growth by laying down an adequate mulch of wood bark, cardboard, newspaper, seaweed, fabric, or gravel.

The Skagway News has new owners. As founding publisher and editor Jeff Brady announced in his last issue new owners take over the 900-circulation paper this month. The editorial team stays the same, but the Whitehorse-based owners plan changes to the 37-year-old newspaper’s look and online reach.

The Sitka Sentinel celebrated its 75th anniversary last year without much fanfare.

An argument is brewing between British photographer David Slater and the folks at Wikimedia over who owns the rights to a photo a monkey took with Slater’s equipment.

Poachers in Thailand killed a 50-year-old elephant who appeared in Oliver Stone’s 2004 film Alexander before crudely hacking off the animal’s giant tusks, according to The Bangkok Post.

A list that was meant to help journalists report on President Obama’s trip to Afghanistan on Sunday has instead created an awkward and potentially damaging situation.

Stanford’s trustees say the school will no longer invest in companies that mine coal, joining about a dozen other colleges that have taken the step.

The Columbian mammoth is facing extinction as South Carolina’s proposed state fossil unless the elephant-sized Ice Age mammal can survive the efforts of creationist lawmakers.

An independent review of 67 cases in which Border Patrol agents used deadly force found that in some of them “agents have deliberately stepped in the path of cars apparently to justify shooting at the drivers and have fired in frustration at people throwing rocks from the Mexican side of the border.”

As recently as 2011, the National Security Agency was collecting almost 200 million text messages each day, according to a new story by The Guardian that cites documents from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.