Wind from the sea and pre-monsoon rains cooled southern Pakistan on Wednesday, likely marking the end of a scorching heat wave that killed at least 838 people, authorities said.

Air Quality will vary between Good and Unhealthy depending on wind flow and proximity to the fire.-Southcentral areas near–Willow, Wasilla, Palmer, Butte, Anchorage, and south over the Kenai Peninsula to include Cooper Landing, Kenai Keys and Skilak Lake areas.

There were lightning strike-caused fires at Paul's Creek and Coffee Creek north of King Salmon, AK.

The victim, identified as 28-year-old Alexander Hellweger, was part of a group of eight friends from Italy and Belgium vacationing in Alaska.

Unseasonably warm, dry weather in a large section of the state set the stage for a roughly 20-acre wildfire near Palmer and kept authorities across Southcentral and Interior Alaska busy putting out backyard fires despite ongoing warnings against open burning.

4-29-14 Sea ice rescue - Barrow, Alaska, USA

In Anchorage, the city logged 68 bed bug complaints in 2013, a decrease from the 84 in 2012. There was just one complaint in 2007 and 2008 combined, according to city data.

Increasing winds may drive the air quality to become "unhealthy to hazardous," said a statement from Eileen Probasco, planning director with the Matanuska-Sustina Borough.

Early fall weather conditions brought on an extreme storm surge in a Norton Sound community.

Common carp (Cyprinus carpio) and channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) die from low dissolved oxygen and ammonia that are the result of an over-application of biosolids.

Thawing permafrost and river bank collapsed on the Cheenik Creek.

6-18-13 Extreme heat - Koyukuk, Alaska, USA

The Anchorage Police Department is warning parents to be cautious after three separate incidents in a week involving toddler-aged children falling out of windows opened in the warm weather.

High spruce pollen levels causing eye, respiratory irrigation and nose bleeds.

A snowmachiner was trapped on the quickly moving floe and he was rescued later by a helicopter.

Rare polar bear sighting in Sisualik summer camp, about 10-11 miles north of Kotzebue, AK.

At least 50,000 homes and businesses lost power late Tuesday, and outages continued through Wednesday.

Update: Aug. 16. Mainstream Canada has announced that the Millar Channel fish farm is now empty. The fish, infected with the IHN virus,were taken to a rendering facility. Mainstream Canada is developing a plan for cleaning and disinfecting the farm site, as per the requirements of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. “This is an unfortunate incident, but we are pleased with how smoothly the depopulation procedure went considering the situation,” said Fernando Villarroel, Mainstream Canada’s managing director.

Fisheries Minister Gail Shea is crowing about the opportunities with the 2010 return of sockeye to the Fraser river, calling it a  banner year for Fraser River sockeye salmon. This year's return is currently set at just over 25 million fish, one of the highest returns in the last hundred years. Several fishery openings for Fraser River sockeye have already occurred in 2010 and more are planned, she said.