Brittni Giliam, the 22-year-old who was found stabbed to death in an Anchorage park this morning, posted this to her blog only two days ago:

Everyday on my bike ride home from work, I stop at a bird sanctuary down the street from my house.  It's a place where I unwind, reflect, and seek for peace.  Everyday is a challenge, but I've discovered that as long as I come out on top, it's "a good day".

According to the bio on her blog, she was training to be an internationally certified aromatherapist. Many of her entries are reflections of time spent in nature. 

Has the long-term relationship between Alaska Regional's owner Columbia/HCA and Wells Fargo had any influence on the choice of Columbia/HCA Alaska Regional Hospital over Providence Anchorage Hospital? Not easy to tell, but there is opportunity here for the Department of Administration to provide the public with more information that could help answer that question.

Tuesday morning a crane being used to construct a new bridge over the Chena River fell and spilled fuel into the river. No-one was injured. This is several hours later.

The spill in the Gulf of Mexico has changed the BP Alaska knows, weakening one of the pillars in the state's oil patch. BP will have to pay for damages and containment, and it probably won't have the ability to operate or develop in Alaska tomorrow the way it did yesterday.

According to US government statistics, Native American and Alaska Native women are more than 2.5 times more likely to be raped or sexually assaulted than other women in the USA. Some Indigenous women interviewed by Amnesty International said they didn’t know anyone in their community who had not experienced sexual violence.

People gathered in downtown Anchorage this afternoon to protest Governor Sean Parnell's veto of expanding the Denali Kid Care program. Parnell is a longtime supporter of the program, but defended his decision as a response to his recent realization that the program funds abortions. The program does fund abortions, but only when medically necessary.

People gathered in downtown Anchorage this afternoon to protest Governor Sean Parnell's veto of expanding the Denali Kid Care program. Parnell is a longtime supporter of the program, but defended his decision as a response to his recent realization that the program funds abortions. The program does fund abortions, but only when medically necessary.

A group of tribal leaders from Alaska, including Earl Kignik from Point Hope, tour the Gulf spill area and ponder what might happen to their homelands if offshore oil drilling is approved for Arctic seas.

On June 2, Anchorage-based group "Oil Addicts Anonymous" and others joined outside BP's Alaska headquarters to protest US dependence on oil and denounce the oil spill caused by the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

A small Cessna plane with five passengers on board smashed into the side of an unoccupied building. Some locals at a nearby gas station responded promptly and pulled the passengers from the wreckage before it burst into flames. Firefighters and police sort out the scene after the crash.