07/02/11 WHITTIER - It's a sort of homecoming for Maj. David Sholin, the new commander of the Whittier Salvation Army.
06/29/11 The Alaska State Museum will be open with extended hours during the First Friday gallery walk with free admission from 4 to 7 p.m. Steve Henrikson, Curator of Collections, will conduct a walk-through of the summer exhibit "Just Old Hats: Headgear in Alaska History" at 5:30 p.m.
06/19/11 The Associated Press The Associated Press FAIRBANKS, Alaska A mobile mammography crew from Fairbanks is on the road in a new 33-foot Freightliner coach featuring full-field digital technology. Staff from the Breast Cancer Detection Center headed south down the Parks Highway, spending Wednesday and Thursday in Nenana, and Friday in Healy. The center is a nonprofit organization started by local ...
06/09/11 The Coast Guard praised five boaters who were rescued in May after their 60-foot motoryacht sank in the Gulf of Alaska, saying the crew was well-prepared to deal with the emergency and the rough conditions.
06/08/11 CVS Caremark All Kids Can, a $25 million commitment to support children with disabilities, and VSA, the international organization on arts and disability are showcasing their commitment to supporting inclusive arts education with the announcement of the 2011 All Kids Can CREATE student artists. ? All Kids Can CREATE is an annual national program where artwork submitted by students, ages 5-15, is ...
05/31/11 Stoltz Marketing Group was honored with three awards from the Northwest ADDY Awards competition in Seattle in April. The winning entries are now finalists in the national ADDY Awards Show, to be judged in June in Miami.
05/27/11 Greg Shapton, Pomona s library director, is retiring after 44 years of service at the library and as director of community services in Pomona. The thing I ll miss is constantly being in the mix of things, Shapton said.
05/26/11 Tom Alexander usually stood 25 feet above the water line as he steered his 60-foot yacht in Gulf of Alaska waters between Kodiak Island and Whittier. But by the time he abandoned his sinking vessel Sunday, he only had to step a foot down into cold seawater.
05/25/11 ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Tom Alexander usually stood 25 feet above the water line as he steered his 60-foot yacht in Gulf of Alaska waters between Kodiak Island and Whittier. But by the time he aband...
05/25/11 Tom Alexander usually stood 25 feet above the water line as he steered his 60-foot yacht in Gulf of Alaska waters between...
05/25/11 North of Marmot Island in the Gulf of Alaska, the fortunes of the five men aboard the ill-fated 60-f
05/24/11 Memorial Day Weekend seems like the official start of summertime in Alaska. For many, it means a chance to hook their own king salmon. For others, it's a time to fire up the grill.
05/24/11 Keith Stebbings of Joseph, Ore. is one of the first of this year's crop of long-distance bicyclists to head from Alaska to the Lower 48, but I don't know that anyone has ever been as well supplied...
05/19/11 Maria Olvera con Valory, una de los dos nietos que est? criando en Altadena, Calif. Foto: Sarah Reingewirtz por cortes?a de San Gabriel Valley News Group.English TranslationRichard le daba patadas a una pelota de goma azul dentro de la casa...
04/30/11 ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A project to expand the harbor in Whittier has stirred up oil spilled from the 1964 earthquake. The Alaska Public Radio Network says dredges began pulling up gravel that was ...
04/27/11 A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday denied a request by the Charter Operators of Alaska for a preliminary injunction blocking the National Marine Fisheries Service from implementing a new halibut limited-entry program that will knock hundreds of small charters out of business.
04/24/11 Disney Cruise Lines has proven it's a one-year Wonder in Vancouver. The Disney Wonder's inaugural cruise to Alaska hasn't even left the dock, and it's been announced the ship is leaving Vancouver as a home port and moving to Seattle next year.
04/24/11 With Cook Inlet natural gas fields declining, you might think local utilities would embrace a plan to use renewable energy like a proposed wind turbine farm on Fire Island to supplement the gas -- a project that could deliver power in two years.
04/24/11 The Associated Press The Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska An Alaska Native regional corporation trying to build a wind farm on Anchorage's Fire Island has yet to get the city's major power utilities to sign on, leaving prospects for the project in question. Natural gas fields supplying Anchorage have declined, but Cook Inlet Regional Inc. remains without a deal to sell power from the proposed ...
04/19/11 This story is fiction. But its scenario shows how dependent Reno, Washoe County and the rest of Northern Nevada are on gaming and tourism for economic survival. | 
