 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 Nurses say that long hours make them prone to more mistakes, which they are blamed for, and they want limits on their daily hours and overtime. House Bill 50 would do just that, but the medical system wants to keep options open.
10/28/09 JUST POSTED:Â Early Oasis of the Seas cruises remain unfilled. Click HERE for details.
 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.
 10/25/09 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 ...
10/23/09 Three-time state champion Nathan Hoffer of East leads three T-birds ranked No. 1 in the first AKMat.org wrestling poll of the season.
 10/20/09 Alaska's Mount Saint Elias is the third-tallest mountain in North America, and it is notoriously unfriendly. It was first climbed in 1897, and it was then all but forgotten. Uncommonly close to tidewater for such a large mountain, its weather is extremely volatile. Near the top, it is often helli...
 10/17/09 In 1976, when Jon Jarvis was just out of college, he took a temporary job with the National Park Service handing out maps about America's bicentennial celebration to tourists at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
10/16/09 Sunday is Alaska Day, commemorating the transfer of Russian America to the United States in 1867. One of the more fun accounts of that early time in Alaska was discovered some years ago in the Newberry Library in Chicago by the late Alaska historian Morgan Sherwood.
10/16/09 n For last seven years, new Obama Adminstration official has been supervised parks in California and five other western states
10/14/09 SITKA - Distinguished artists from Juneau, Sitka and Japan will celebrate Alaska Day with the Alaska Exchange Classics concert that will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 17 at the Sitka High School Performing Arts Center.
 10/13/09 Right after college, Jon Jarvis was camping in Yellowstone when a man at a nearby campsite walked out of his Airstream wearing a smoking jacket and wielding a chain saw...
 10/12/09 ABOARD THE M/V COLUMBIA -- Capt. John McMahon was tired mid morning on the second day of the voyage. He had been dragged out of bed after the fog rolled in. Visibility was down to two-tenths of a mile. | 
