07/05/11 As Ambiga Sreenevasan, the Bersih chief, once put it - the rally has become the people. It is not about her or her committee. Advice that she and her committee should have remembered. The call for free and fair elections has now sparked a sense of injury amongst Malaysians - far and wide. The realization that they have been cheated of their fundamental rights and are still being brazenly robbed ...
06/26/11 For a week in the spring of 1954, George Argus lay helplessly in a tent at the 11,000-foot level of Mount McKinley. He was too injured to move after an accident that killed the leader of his climbing team, stuck in a sleeping bag as snow slowly piled up around him, and stretching a meager stock of supplies left by two other survivors who left him behind when they went to get help.
06/22/11 Both supporters and opponents of Chukchi Sea oil development are rounding up constituents to testify at a Thursday public hearing on the issue in Fairbanks.
06/09/11 When a group of 2,000 elderly British cruise ship passengers docked at Los Angeles for a short stop-off during a five-star cruise around America it was, in the words of one of them, more like arriving at Guantanamo Bay.
06/04/11 Former Gov. Sarah Palin 's bus touring around the Lower 48 had a big image of the state of Alaska, and she's constantly talking up her home state. But back home, her main initiatives as governor continue to be under attack from fellow Republicans and her poll numbers aren't looking good.
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...
05/31/11 The nation's top official for veterans affairs told reporters in Anchorage on Memorial Day that his agency can and must do a better job of reaching military veterans.
05/30/11 SEATTLE - Zipping along the northwestern Alaska coast in a helicopter on a summer day, recent Coast Guard Academy graduate Bob Papp scanned for a route his vessel could take through the ice from No...
05/30/11 In 1966, Art Peters found himself in the jungles of South Vietnam. He was stationed in one of the northern most camps held by U.S. Army forces. Living quarters were two soldiers to a bunker.
05/30/11 Primary 2012 Republican acts like a candidate Embed multimedia (photos, galleries, audio, map): Bachmann visits Dover Memorial Day picnic Bachmann visits Dover Memorial Day picnic Bachmann visits Dover Memorial Day picnic Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann isn't a candidate for president, technically. But Granite Staters who met her or heard her speak yesterday at events on the Seacoast could be ...
05/29/11 Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin roared into Washington Sunday on the back of a Harley Davidson motorcycle, to a considerable amount of skepticism from the 2012 voters everyone wants on their side: independent women.
05/27/11 This is the second installment of an Alaska Newspapers interview with Walt Monegan, former Anchorage police chief and Department of Public Safety commissioner.
05/26/11 DES MOINES --- When Congresswoman Michele Bachmann makes her announcement on whether she's running for president, she'll do it in Waterloo.
05/26/11 Sarah Palin is planning a bus tour to visit historical and cultural East Coast sights during Memorial Day weekend, but she hasn't said which ones or when she'll be there.
05/26/11 Sarah Palin will embark this weekend on a campaign-style bus tour along the East Coast, and while her itiinerary has not been announced, it appears Trenton, Princeton and Washington Crossing should be high on her lists of stops.
05/23/11 Monday night at the seventh annual Parade of Athletes banquet, the Tampa Tribune announced its Hillsborough County High-School Players of the Year. Here's a closer look:
05/22/11 It is time for TransCanada, Exxon and the state to lay their cards on the table; time to tell Alaskans whether their natural gas pipeline project is deader than Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
05/22/11 Good report from Channel 4 on a Van Buren County man, Dennis Brummett, concerned about leaks from a containment pond holding gas drilling waste . He says his complaints to state regulators initially drew no response. Of course not. The legislature's Shale Caucus believes serious regulation will kill the goose that laid the golden egg. What gets killed from leaking chemicals is not a Caucus ...
05/20/11 Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said there can be no peace agreement in the Middle East -- and should be no further U.S. aid to Palestinians -- until all Palestinian leaders recognize Israel as a legitimate Jewish state.
05/20/11 No peace agreement in the Middle East can be achieved -- and no further U.S. aid to Palestinians should be provided -- as long as Hamas fails to recognize Israel as a legitimate Jewish state, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said. | 
