07/08/11 ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The head of the Alaska region for Providence Health & Services is stepping down. Al Parrish will retire at the end of the year. A company announcement says Parrish was named s...
07/07/11 After holding its own against the best of the Pacific Northwest, the Alaska Lady Ice elite basketball team is ready to take on the nation.
07/07/11 Time to stop making excuses for Big Oil by George Ochenski Montana has now joined the long list of states and regions where Big Oil has contaminated swaths of water and land with leaks and spills. In Montana's most recent disaster, a ruptured Exxon Mobil pipeline that brings oil to refineries in Laurel ruptured and gushed an estimated 1,000 barrels of raw crude oil into the Yellowstone River and ...
07/06/11 With the old railway swing bridge taken out of commission by a gravel barge last week, Quayside residents say they're sleeping better now that trains can't shuttle back and forth between Lulu Island and the switching yard. Historians and boat buffs are also getting an unexpected benefit.
07/06/11 LAUREL, Montana - Exxon Mobil came under fire on Wednesday from Gov. Brian Schweitzer, who said the oil giant had assured Montana that any spill on the Yellowstone River could be shut off in a few minutes.
07/06/11 Under a project with the Kenai Watershed Forum, contractors are rerouting the Anchor River to its old channel before 2002 flooding moved the river into an old gravel pit near the south end of the North Fork Road. A temporary bridge has been built across the river to provide access to the opposite side.
07/06/11 Alaska communities are pushing back against the state's plan for redrawing legislative election districts. Lawsuits are being filed or contemplated in Fairbanks and the Aleutian Islands, while the Mat-Su Borough Assembly wanted to sue but the borough mayor vetoed the idea.
07/06/11 Exxon Mobil Engineer Eric Julian inspects oil residue on the property of Jim Swanson in Laurel, Montana, July 5, 2011. Photo: REUTERS/John Warner Governor Brian Schweitzer vowed on Tuesday to cling to Exxon Mobil like "the smell on a skunk" for as long as it takes to get the company to clean up a weekend oil spill that fouled an otherwise pristine stretch of the Yellowstone River in Montana.
06/11/11 Eighty percent of U.S. homeowners have lawns and spend $40 billion per year to maintain and improve their estimated 18 million acres of private lawn. It is estimated that there are more than 31 million acres of grass in the U.S., an area equal to the New England states. These 50 million lawns trap pollution, prevent runoff, improve the air we breathe and can even increase property values.
06/11/11 After years of piecemeal efforts to prevent oil development off California's coast, the potential for a national marine sanctuary at Monterey Bay provided a rare opportunity for permanent protection.
06/11/11 So far, there are no bombshells in the thousands of Sarah Palin emails released this week. But they reveal a fuller, more nuanced picture of one of the most powerful and controversial women in US politics today.
06/11/11 Some highlights from the 24,000 pages of e-mails from Sarah Palin's governorship, released Friday by Alaska state officials:
06/11/11 ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Most parents know how quickly childhood passes. Alaska filmmaker Mary Katzke wanted to take advantage of those waning years by going on a trip around the world with her 11-year-...
06/11/11 Thousands of pages of e-mail from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's administration range from the mundane details of governing to efforts to crack down on state news leaks and push back against critics.
06/06/11 (CNN) - The intense debate over Sarah Palin, her career and her influence will only get more intense with the...
06/06/11 "The Undefeated," which will screen in Iowa and New Hampshire before opening next month, doesn't purport to be objective
06/05/11 Two decades ago, Gerry Nolting represented 2,200 fishermen harmed by the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska and took the role of lead prosecutor in the class-action lawsuit, in which 32,000 claimants initially were awarded $5.3 billion. Then he watched as Exxon fought the judgment all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which cut damages to about $1 billion in 2008. Full distribution of the damages ...
06/03/11 History teaches us that mistakes and bad behaviors left unexamined tend to repeat themselves. Such is the case when, years ago, Alaska government officials opposed calls for an independent review of the historic $1 billion Exxon Valdez Oil Spill (EVOS) science and restoration program. As a result, the same mistakes made with EVOS in Alaska are being made today with the much larger Deepwater ...
06/03/11 As both a helicopter pilot and guide, Christian Cabanilla holds a unique place in the snowboarding industry. The 32-year-old is based out of Valdez, Alaska, chases snow from the Arctic to Antarctica, and fights wildfires as a pilot. Due to his crossover talents honed while guiding for 10 years and flying...
05/22/11 Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park's premiere of "Happy Worst Day Ever" will be featured at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska, this June and at the New York International Fringe Festival in August. | 
