01/27/10 (AP:JUNEAU, Alaska) A proposal by Gov. Sean Parnell to suspend Alaska's motor fuels tax may undermine federal transportation funding, U.S. Rep. Don Young said.
 01/27/10 A few years ago, 82-year-old Wilfred "Wilf" Blezard remembered the coldest day recorded in North America's history. Blezard was one of four weathermen stationed at the Snag airport in Yukon, Canada, on Feb. 3, 1947. On that day, the temperature dropped to minus 81 degrees Fahrenheit.
01/23/10 Travis Thompson shot the lights out as Dimond advanced to the championship of the Dimond Prep Shootout with an 87-74 win over Ketchikan on Friday night at Dimond High.
01/23/10 Guest bluegrass band Brother Mule had the crowd popping Friday night. They give one more show at 9:15 p.m. (more or less) tonight for the Anchorage Folk Festival.
 01/22/10 The shortage of health care professionals afflicts Fairbanks and other towns across Alaska. The Alaska Health Care Commission says the number of jobs in health care grew by 40 percent from 2...
 01/22/10 January 21, 2010. The Borough of Wrangell Assembly and City of Petersburg Council met on January 14 with hopes of bringing open discussion to the table regarding energy issues amongst others.
 01/21/10 JUNEAU - An Alaska Republican is renewing a push to increase the number of state lawmakers.
 01/02/10 Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- An Anchorage woman who makes her living training others to ski faster is hoping to move from the sidelines to the trails in the Olympics. Holly Brooks
 01/01/10 An Anchorage woman who makes her living training others to ski faster is hoping to move from the sidelines to the trails in the Olympics.
01/01/10 Sometime last year, maybe even the year before, life became all about the Olympics for Holly Brooks -- even though for a long time she didn't know it, and then once she did, she was afraid to admit it.
 12/27/09 The Juneau-Douglas Crimson Bears and Thunder Mountain Falcons faced each other in girls high school basketball last weekend. It was the first time Juneau had faced a crosstown rival since the 1950s - the days of the Douglas High School Huskies.
12/26/09 This weekend, Anchorage theater fans will have the chance to catch a truly unusual act: The chairman of the State Council on the Arts will step on stage, dressed in a ridiculous outfit and perform a sardonic, one-man, "anti-holiday" cult classic.
 12/25/09 Study of the San Andreas fault finds that just a little added stress makes a quake more likely.
 12/24/09 Seismologists discover that the same gravitational forces from the moon and the sun that cause ocean tides are triggering small, deep tremors on the San Andreas fault.
 12/24/09 Southeast Alaska's plans for waste disposal are moving along, and so are Juneau's - though there's currently no indication those two plans might be in the same direction.
12/24/09 Farmers in the Delta Junction area want the local bison herd fenced in or reduced in size to cut damage to their crops. Hunters want the herd free to roam and perhaps even enlarged.
 12/23/09 Study of one portion of the San Andreas fault finds that just a little added stress makes a quake more likely
 12/16/09 If you have an Alaska traveler on your gift list, here's a stocking suffer on steroids: the Great Alaskan TourSaver.
 12/15/09 Gov. Sean Parnell presented a budget for next year that he said would both rein in spending and put money aside for the future.
 10/28/09 On a wet, windy, foggy night a few summers ago, Guy Tytgat checked into the loneliest hotel in the Aleutians. His room was four feet wide and five feet tall, made of fiberglass, and perched on the lip of a volcanic crater. |