Austrian climber missing on Alaska's Mt. McKinley

06/30/11 ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Denali National Park rangers and volunteers were searching on Thursday for a missing Austrian climber last seen heading for the summit of Mount McKinley in Alaska.

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The Flats: rain, whirlpool, a defunct cafe

07/05/11 The Yukon River flows its first 700 miles through one mountain range or another. Around where it passes the town of Circle, though, the mountains run out and for the next 250 miles the river is free to spill itself across the huge basin of the Yukon Flats.

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Kaltag fish processing plant closes

07/13/11 The Associated Press The Associated Press FAIRBANKS, Alaska A fish processing plant at Kaltag has shut down for the summer and the operator blames the state. Doug Karlberg, owner of Yukon River Gold, told the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner that the Alaska Department of Fish and Game's limit left him too little time this summer to make money. He leases the plant from the city of Kaltag. Karlberg says ...

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