Cost woes continue to beset Anchorage port project

05/15/11 LISA DEMER Anchorage Daily News ANCHORAGE, Alaska A controversial project to expand the Port of Anchorage and replace its old docks may be abandoned as its costs continue to escalate. At Mayor Dan Sullivan's request, the port has proposed a scaled-back version that would shore up old, corroded pilings and finish two new barge berths and one berth for ships. But the big cargo carriers that bring ...

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Exhibit features crew of doomed WWII submarine

05/30/11 MIKE DUNHAM Anchorage Daily News ANCHORAGE, Alaska On July 30, 1942, the USS Grunion, a 312-foot-long submarine prowling off the Aleutian Islands, contacted Navy officials in Dutch Harbor. It had sunk two Japanese sub chasers and damaged a third. It was down to its last 10 torpedoes. The Navy ordered it to return to base. It never arrived and was never heard from again. For nearly 70 years its ...

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Alaska Editorials

06/22/11 The Associated Press Here is a sampling of editorial opinions from Alaska newspapers: June 21, 2011 Anchorage Daily News: Arctic frontier Not many years ago, the late Wally Hickel, former Alaska governor and Interior secretary, was writing about an Arctic future that read like speculative fiction. Climate change could give us a new Northwest Passage, changing the economics of world shipping ...

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