07/07/11 Several dozen youths are getting a real education this summer in one of Bristol Bay's oldest traditions, the art of putting up wild Alaska salmon for the coming winter, in cans, as frozen fillets, as salmon jerky and smoked strips of the protein packed fish.
07/05/11 Delivering health care in Alaska is unique and challenging in most regions, but especially so along the eastern portion of the Aleutian Islands chain, where a handful of often windblown and fogged-in communities are scattered over more than a thousand miles.
07/04/11 The 350 women racing Mount Marathon today will experience something new to almost all of them. They will pass seven-time and reigning champion Cedar Bourgeois on their way up the 3,022-foot mountain in Seward.
06/30/11 By now, anyone interested in Dungeness crab is fully aware that the summer recreational season opens Friday in most of Puget Sound and runs through the Labor Day weekend, Thursdays through Mondays.
06/23/11 In this installment of the Butterfly Effect, climate change is creating incredible economic opportunity in the Arctic, leading to saber rattling from Canada and Russia. Whichever region benefits the most will have enormous geopolitical consequences. 1. The Great Melt. In August 2007, a robotic Russian sub planted a titanium flag on the seabed at the North Pole, an act dismissed as a PR stunt by ...
06/22/11 Like the vast African plains, two huge expanses of the North Pacific Ocean are major corridors of life, attracting an array of marine predators in predictable seasonal patterns, according to final results from the Census of Marine Life Tagging of Pacific Predators.
06/22/11 Rogue glacier near Yakutat again attracting attentionWith the return of summer, many natural cycles have resumed up north - visiting birds have invaded tundra and forest, salmon torpedo in loose formation up rivers, and Hubbard Glacier again threatens to pinch off a fjord.
06/19/11 The Associated Press The Associated Press FAIRBANKS, Alaska A mobile mammography crew from Fairbanks is on the road in a new 33-foot Freightliner coach featuring full-field digital technology. Staff from the Breast Cancer Detection Center headed south down the Parks Highway, spending Wednesday and Thursday in Nenana, and Friday in Healy. The center is a nonprofit organization started by local ...
06/16/11 A violent and unruly crowd overturned cars, set fires and looted stores throughout downtown Vancouver late Wednesday, after the Canucks lost the Stanley Cup final 4-0 to the Boston Bruins.
06/13/11 COLD BAY, Alaska - Federal aviation officials say a Universal Airlines plane crash landed in Cold Bay without landing gear extended. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen Kenitzer says...
06/13/11 Through the Mountaineering Challenge for Combat Wounded Veterans, several Tampa Bay area veterans want to show others injured in war their lives are not over.
06/13/11 Redistricting Leads to Big Election Year in 2012, Talkeetna Woman Found, Hospitalized After Search Called Off, Vote Delayed on Bycatch Reduction Alternatives, Port Moller Test Fishery to Receive Boost, and more...
06/12/11 Seeking a geoduck is downright dirty business. It's not about meeting somebody in a dark alleyway with a cash for bivalve transaction. Simply put you'll need to just about bury yourself head first into mucky sand and seawater to get to these deep dwellers of Puget Sound.
06/11/11 Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin held private discussions with Tony Hayward, the discredited BP chief executive, to win his support for a 1,700-mile gas pipeline across North America a year after his company's failure to maintain another pipeline saw it blamed for the biggest oil spill in the state's history.
06/11/11 Seeking a geoduck is downright dirty business. You'll need to just about bury yourself headfirst into mucky sand and seawater to get to the deep dwellers of Puget Sound.
06/03/11 It is summer in Napa Valley and a man is running through the suffocating heat. Ten hours ago, he started swimming through the Russian River.
06/03/11 Here is an extended excerpt from the testimony given Thursday to a U.S. House subcommittee by David Lawrence, an executive vice president of Shell, about the company's plans to explore for oil of...
06/02/11 The famed "Ice Road Truckers" might become the Muddy Road Muckers if a new climate-prediction study that looks at the future of Canada's melting permafrost is right.
06/02/11 Tracy Ammerman, Gla-cier National Park's new chief of interpretation and partnerships, won't be doing much scuba diving here, but that doesn't mean she doesn't like winter recreation.
06/02/11 Weekly Weather Summary: The period began with a widespread area of severe weather (mainly strong winds and large hail) across the East Coast states, though with minimal tornadic activity, especially when compared to the previous week. | 
