06/15/11 Jared Cannonier, Benny Vinson, and Pat Applegate of Gracie Barra Anchorage, drop by AKSN to chat up Midnight Sun Madness. Midnight Sun Madness is an MMA card with PRIDE style rules, Sunday (6/19) at the Big I in Fairbanks.
06/08/11 Matt Montavon expects to arrive in Homer tomorrow after running 1,100 miles alone and unsupported across Alaska, raising money and awareness for the Wounded Warrior Project, a nonprofit, nonpartisan charity that helps injured service members.
06/01/11 Thousands of emails written by Sarah Palin as Alaska governor are to be published, although parts of the possible White House candidate's exchanges will be censored, reports said on Wednesday.
06/01/11 The Associated Press Here is a sampling of editorial opinions from Alaska newspapers: May 30, 2011 Juneau Empire: Where is King Solomon when you need him? The wheels are coming off the bus, but nobody aboard can hear it because they're busy squabbling. A special two-day legislative session was canceled Sunday because the State Senate is as intractable as the governor and the House on an issue ...
06/01/11 US media win access to conversations under Freedom of Information Act, despite Palin's attempts to stall process Tens of thousands of emails to and from Sarah Palin during her time as Alaska governor are to be released within the next week after more than two years of obstruction and delay. Requests for the emails, under the Freedom of Information Act, would normally take about a fortnight. But ...
05/26/11 FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty: Just when we thought maybe she had decided to just go away comes news of Sarah Palin, the movie. Next month, a secretly produced, two-hour feature film about the former Alaska governor will be released in Iowa, where the 2012 presidential campaign will kick off with the Iowa caucuses in February. [...]
05/25/11 Here's the Associated Press Sportswatch from the Associated Press
05/25/11 Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: Now to the struggle in Libya, Egypt's neighbor, and to the second of our interviews with correspondents covering that story. Tonight: the perspective of GlobalPost correspondent and producer James Foley, who was captured and imprisoned for six weeks by the government. Foley was seized April 5 in Brega, along with Clare Morgana Gillis, who writes for USA Today ...
05/25/11 MTV Japan today announced global multiplatinum rock artists Tokio Hotel, Korean supergroups Girls Generation and SHINee, UK rock band One Night Only and local favourites and Sendai-based Monkey Majik as additional performers at the MTV VIDEO MUSIC AID JAPAN. They join Lady Gaga, Exile and Kana Nishino at the tenth annual MTV Video Music Awards Japan VMAJ, which is being staged as a live ...
05/23/11 SANTIAGO, Chile -- The remains of deposed Chilean President Salvador Allende were removed from his tomb Monday for an autopsy to determine whether he committed suicide or was assassinated during the 1973 military coup that ousted the leftist leader.
05/19/11 After adjourning in April and then being called into a special session by Gov. Sean Parnell, the 27th Alaska State Legislature finally came to a close late Saturday night.
05/19/11 With Benjamin Dean Maxon filling in temporarily, four candidates, including Maxon, have applied to become chief of the Anchor Point Fire and Emergency Medical Service Area.
05/19/11 Called into special session last month by Gov. Sean Parnell, the 27th Alaska State Legislature finally came to a close late Saturday night.
05/19/11 TRENTON -- Adult adoptees in New Jersey who want to find their biological parents hope a three-decade battle in the Legislature over giving them access to their birth records will end with a stroke of Gov. Chris Christie's pen.
05/19/11 Five decades ago, fishermen and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans made a concerted push to slaughter the remaining basking sharks off the west coast of Vancouver Island. Today, with a dramatic turn in attitudes, all efforts are concentrated on helping the population recover.
05/10/11 Ice vanished last week from the gorgeous, glacially carved 4 1/2-mile long Hidden Lake on the Kenai Peninsula. That means one of the largest populations of lake trout on the Kenai Peninsula will be cruising the shallow waters of the 1,596-acre lake the next couple of weeks.
05/10/11 Local singer-songwriter Justin Grennan was blown away when in February he learned that he made the Top 80 cut during tryouts for NBC's new, highly-rated singing competition, The Voice....
05/10/11 Talk about audience participation.During Elvis Costello's two-night stand at the Fox Theater, which finished up on Monday night, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer invited fans onstage to help formulate the set lists.
05/10/11 ALBANY -- As officials in New York weigh whether to bolster the state's texting-while-driving ban, a look at the numbers tells the story.
04/13/11 FAIRHOPE, Ala. - The Exceptional Foundation of Baldwin County, a newly-incorporated organization benefitting special needs patients on the gulf coast, began selling tickets last week to it's first major fundraiser, a May 3 dinner featuring former one-term Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. |