Sports Digest || Penguin baseball team splits with Cincinnati

03/06/11 Penguin baseball team splits with Cincinnati Cincinnati Youngstown State pitchers Kevin McCulloh

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Polaris revved up about how its machines performed in Iron Dog

03/01/11 Champions Chris Olds of Eagle River and Tyler Huntington of Fairbanks weren't the only ones ecstatic at the result of the Iron Dog, that ended Saturday night in Fairbanks with the team's second consecutive victory.

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Alaska lawmakers rack up travel costs

02/28/11 (AP:JUNEAU, Alaska) When January arrived last year and it came time to answer the call of the Alaska Legislature, Sen. Donny Olson, D-Golovin, and his family took a 1,028 journey across the state to the capitol Juneau, a trip involving three plane flights, and for the two cars he brought along, additional miles travelled via boat and ferry.

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Nurses discover how to bring a healing touch

02/28/11 During end-of-life care, nurses focus on ensuring patients are as comfortable and pain-free as possible. With Healing Touch, they have an additional method to bring that comfort to their patients.

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Adventurous Alaskan author inspires Indiantown students

02/28/11 As a young girl growing up in Delray Beach, Shelley Gill was so inspired by Jack London's novel "White Fang" that after high school, she headed to Alaska and never returned.

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Veteran set to turn 90 after surviving four plane crashes, train bombing

02/27/11 Harold Pringle is proud to be turning 90 on Wednesday after surviving four plane crashes and a train bombing while serving in World War II.

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Alaskan wins $10,000 for helping rockfish

02/22/11 Ace Callaway of Fairbanks, a retired Valdez fishing charter operator, has earned $10,000 from the boating supplier West Marine for a device he invented that helps save fragile rockfish.

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NovaGold clarifies lawsuit in statement to Business in Vancouver

02/21/11 In a February 17 BC Supreme Court notice of civil claim, Vancouver-based gold exploration firm NovaGold Resources Inc. (TSX:NG)...

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Team's hopes go up in flames

02/21/11 The brutal 2,000-mile Iron Dog snowmobile race where racers annually endure bone-chilling temperatures faced a new peril Sunday afternoon -- fire.

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Head North to Alaska

02/20/11 The state prepares for its annual spectacle in racing from Anchorage to Nome The state prepares for its annual spectacle in racing from Anchorage to Nome

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Top contenders among first to leave as Iron Dog starts today

02/20/11 Dusty Van Meter and Marc McKenna, who own five Iron Dog championships between them but are in search of their first victory together, will be the first team on the trail when the world's longest snowmachine race begins today.

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New route for Iron Dog snowmobile race across Alaska

01/23/11   FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- The world's longest snowmobile race just got longer. Iron Dog organizers say they have approval to reroute the race's course through the town of North Pole to finish in downtown Fairbanks, pushing the length past 2,000 miles. Race officials announced the route change about a month ago and on Tuesday said they had acquired the needed permits, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner ...

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New generation learns old way at Native games

01/23/11 The T-shirts they're selling at this weekend's Junior Native Youth Olympics say "Keeping Our Traditions Alive," and amid all the craziness at Begich Middle School,a new generation was learning old ways.

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Golden Bears win the Alaska Prep Shootout

01/23/11 The championship game at the Alaska Prep Shootout boys basketball tournament featured a family feud Saturday night at Dimond High. Trey Fullmer, a starter for Palmer, faced a Bartlett team coached by his father, Greg Fullmer.

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Bartlett, Palmer boys meet for basketball Shootout title

01/22/11 Bartlett's Damon Sherman- Newsome racked 20 points and eight rebounds Friday, helping the Golden Bears blow by North Pole, 70-57, at the Alaska Prep Shootout at Dimond.

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Alaska takes over cable television

01/22/11 Spending time in Alaska has been an as-yet unfulfilled lifelong dream of mine. But this winters vast lineup of Alaska-themed cable television programming could leave me yearning for Arizona.History Channels "Ice Road Truckers," about the guys and...

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West girls basketball team top Grace in T-Bird Classic

01/21/11 Led by 14 points from Anastasia Lavern-Tosi, West won Thursday's opening game of the T-Bird Classic girls basketball tournament at East High.

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Klondike Derby to get taste of authentic temperatures

01/21/11 The annual Boy Scout Klondike Derby is being held at Camp Illinek in Springfield. Instead of sleeping in tents, the Scouts from Springfield and other communities will stay in winter shelters they built last week.

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Edmonds musher ready for a cold challenge in Alaska

01/20/11 Bone-chilling cold, a frozen landscape, hours of grueling work, it's all part of a big dream. Jan Steves is holding on tightly, and isn't about to let it go.

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True grit: PLU walk-on from Alaska 'toughest kid we've got'

01/11/11 Steve Dickerson decided his starting lineup needed more grit. Sitting right there on his bench was a guy who grew up hunting whales in the Bering Sea. Problem solved.

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