ANCHORAGE — Moose stew and fish head soup would surprise patients at most nursing homes, but Kay Branch found that those traditional foods can light up the eyes of elderly Alaska Natives in urban living facilities far from their village homes.

Branch’s creative resolve to make sure Native elders receive culturally important care has landed her a national award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Anchorage woman is among 10 recipients of the foundation’s 2012 Community Health Leaders Award.

ANCHORAGE — A Dallas auction house selling a rare century-old $5 bill from Fairbanks this month was duped in a separate, unrelated deal last year with a Fairbanks locksmith who sold the company historical bank notes he stole from the estate of a collector.

Fairbanks police say Heritage Auctions pulled the bills from sale after learning it received stolen property from Forrest Holton, who is serving a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to felony theft.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Buy an iPhone 5 or replace the leaky rain gutters? Splurge or save? Ah, the tough choices that befall Alaskans every year, when they get their dividend checks from the state's oil savings account just for living here.

State officials said Tuesday that eligible Alaskans will receive $878 this year. That's significantly less than last year's dividend of $1,174, which was the smallest since 2006. The payout will be distributed Oct. 4.

ANCHORAGE — An Anchorage seafood restaurant heralded its grand opening Friday by mimicking Alaska Airlines' splashy salmon show in Seattle.

The Seattle-based airline makes a big production each year of delivering the first-of-the-season Copper River king salmon from Alaska to Seattle for preparation by top chefs, who got their celebrated bounty earlier Friday.