09/02/10 Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is visiting Alaska and plans a town hall community meeting Thursday in Barrow to discuss North Slope issues.
09/02/10 Filmmakers are holding their last major auditions of the summer for the Drew Barrymore film "Everybody Loves Whales" on Friday and Saturday at the Dimond Center in Anchorage.
09/02/10 Sigmund Patterson, 19, works on Financial Aid paperwork outside the Rasmuson Library during the first day of classes at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Thursday afternoon, September 2, 2010. "I'm enjoying the sun," the freshman Associate Arts major from Barrow said of moving outside because it was too warm in the library.
09/01/10 ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is visiting Alaska and plans a town hall community meeting Thursday in Barrow to discuss North Slope issues. Salazar also plans a news conferen...
09/01/10 FAIRBANKS - River running took on a new meaning Monday afternoon as nine-year-old water skier Amber Hajdukovich skimmed over the calm waters of the Chena River powered by a six-member sled dog team running along a sandbar.
08/16/10 Congress is on recess, and President Obama departs on vacation. President Obama visits a battery manufacturer, ZBB Energy Corp., inRead the Rest...
08/15/10 Oklahomans Will Rogers and WileyPost died in a plane crash near PointBarrow, Alaska, while on an around-theworldtrip. They had just taken off fora 10-minute flight to Point Barrow.
08/15/10 On the 75th anniversary of the humorist's death, hundreds attend a fundraiser at his former home to benefit the foundation that oversees Will Rogers Historic State Park. Will Rogers, the "cowboy philosopher" who became a film and radio star and delighted the country with his humorous sayings, was killed in a plane crash 75 years ago.
08/15/10 In 1057, Macbeth, King of Scots, was killed in battle by Malcolm, eldest son of King Duncan, whom Macbeth had slain. Actor John Gielgud appeared as Shakespeare's Macbeth in 1942.
07/10/10 ANCHORAGE, Alaska - One of Alaska's biggest Native corporations had changed top leadership. The board of Barrow-based Arctic Slope Regional Corp. voted Wednesday to bring back former president J...
07/09/10 The Public Safety Report is compiled from criminal complaints filed in state and federal courts, as well as some police blotter information, trooper dispatches, fire department reports and intervie...
06/29/10 The North Platte Telegraph Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it wrote philosopher George Santayana. The 2010 Chautauqua concluded in North Platte on Sunday night with Will Rogers and Senator Huey P. Long performing in the big tent at Cody Park. North Platte's Chautauqua was the final stop for the season for the Kansas-Nebraska Chautauqua 2008-10 "Bright Dreams, Hard Times ...
06/17/10 ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- The federal plan for designating more than 187,000 square miles as polar bear critical habitat is too large and will lead to huge, unnecessary costs for Alaska's petroleum industry, opponents of the proposal told the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Tuesday night.
06/16/10 A U.S. plan for designating more than 484,000 square kilometres as polar bear critical habitat is too large and will lead to huge, unnecessary costs for Alaska's petroleum industry, opponents of the proposal told the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Tuesday night.
06/16/10 What's Your Reaction? This undated file photo released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a sow polar bear resting with her cubs on the pack ice in the Beaufort Sea in northern Alaska.
06/16/10 The federal plan for designating more than 187,000 square miles as polar bear critical habitat is too large and will lead to huge, unnecessary costs for Alaska's petroleum industry, according to opponents of the proposal told the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
05/14/10 Associated Press - May 14, 2010 1:24 PM ET FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - The question of whether to designate the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's coastal plain as wilderness drew the expected...
05/05/10 In the summer of 2007 I spent a week sitting in front of a microfilm reader on the third floor of the Rasmuson Library at University of Alaska Fairbanks.
04/30/10 John Krasinski and Drew Barrymore are set to star in director Ken Kwapis family adventure Whales (previously titled "Everybody Loves Whales").
04/26/10 ANCHORAGE - As waterfowl wing their way to northern nesting grounds by the thousands, key Alaska Native groups are fighting a new federal requirement that subsistence hunters must buy duck stamps. | 
