04/17/11 A unique battle flag hangs in the Confederate Museum in Richmond, Va. It's the flag of the only ship in the southern navy to have circumnavigated the globe. The one that fluttered as cannons fired the final volleys in the war. The last to be lowered in surrender.
04/16/11 About 150 years ago, a few days after summer solstice, the gray skies above the Diomede Islands were heavy with smoke from whaling ships set ablaze by Confederate sailors who didn't know the Civil War had ended.
04/13/11 About 150 years ago, a few days after summer solstice, the gray skies above the Diomede Islands were heavy with smoke from whaling ships set ablaze by Confederate sailors who didn't know the Civil War had ended.
03/11/11 Tsunami warning issued for Hawaii, Pacific, and California North of Pt. Conception, Tsunami Watch for Southern California
11/23/10 Ian Frazier is one of the few true stylists in nonfiction writing today. Along with Susan Orlean and not many others (would that David Foster Wallace were still around), he writes in a fashion that is recognizably and unmistakably his own.
09/25/10 Two kiteboarders hoping to make an unprecedented Bering Strait crossing have abandoned their bid after waiting in Wales for nearly a month for ideal conditions that never materialized.
08/04/10 A sexual abuse suit filed last year against a former Fairbanks priest was dismissed in U.S. District Court on May 24 by Judge John Sedwick. The Fairbanks Catholic Diocese announced the dismissal Tuesday.
08/04/10 More than 70 Coast Guard, Army National Guard, Air National Guard and U.S. Public Health Services personnel are being sent to Kotzebue. They are beginning a 10 day initiative to provide medical care and other community services to Alaska communities.
08/03/10 Associated Press - August 3, 2010 7:14 AM ET ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - More than 70 Coast Guard, Army National Guard, Air National Guard and U.S. Public Health Services personnel are being...
08/03/10 More than 70 Coast Guard, Army National Guard, Air National Guard and U.S. Public Health Services personnel are being deployed to Kotzebue.
06/22/10 Editor's Note: Haley Smith Kingsland is an Earth systems master's student at Stanford University specializing in science communication. For five weeks she's in the land of no sunsets participating in ICESCAPE , a NASA-sponsored research cruise to investigate the effects of climate change on the Chukchi and Bering Seas. This is her first blog post for Scientific American . [More]
04/08/10 The ex-Governor of Alaska didn't quite say, "I can see Russia from my house!" -- that was her separated-at-birth look-alike, Tina Fey, on SNL. Kidding aside, on a clear day you really can see the Russian mainland from the Alaskan mainland, 55 miles away.
11/16/09 Active Media Products isn't one to shy away from mildly ludicrous USB flash drive designs , but it may want to snag a lawyer on retainer for this one. Granted, there's at least a sliver of a chance that Sarah Palin was actually notified that her image would be used to market AMP's new "Wink" USB flash drive, but chances are she's being rudely introduced to the sobering truth just as we are ...
11/07/09 Associated Press - November 7, 2009 4:24 AM ET ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - It could be the most isolated community in the nation - a wind-ripped village on a remote Alaska island with no passenger...
11/07/09 State health officials have redirected 130 doses of swine flu vaccine to the remote island village of Little Diomede.
11/07/09 Suspected swine flu is sweeping a traditional Eskimo whaling village on a remote Alaska island _ prompting an urgent medical mission to deliver help. "Diomede is probably the most isolated place in the United States right now," said David Head, a doctor involved in the effort.
11/07/09 This October 2002 picture provided by Dr. David Head of the Norton Sound Health Corporation shows the village of Diomede on Little Diomede Island in extreme western Alaska. So many of the 130 residents of the isolated community have been stricken with flu-like symptoms that the Alaska Army National Guard stepped in with a Black Hawk helicopter to transport a medical team there from Nome 135 ...
11/07/09 This October 2002 picture provided by Dr. David Head of the Norton Sound Health Corporation shows the village of Diomede on Little Diomede Island in extreme western Alaska. So many of the 130 resident...
11/07/09 Two Little Diomede residents with severe H1N1 symptoms were medevaced to Nome through a coordinated effort by the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS), Alaska Army National Guard, Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Management, and the Norton Sound Health Corporation.
08/20/09 Lemko is pleased to announce TelAlaska is providing commercial cellular services utilizing Lemko Corporation's Node1TM 4G Core Network systems across the state of Alaska. | 
