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07/05/11 NORTH POLE, Alaska - Alaska State Troopers say a 59-year-old North Pole man has died in what is believed to be a medical emergency while he was driving. Troopers say James Stephen McCollam was dri...
06/28/11 A 28-year-old North Pole man is accused of stealing nearly a ton of copper from Eielson Air Force Base. Raymond Weber, a technician for the Air National Guard, was arrested Saturday after Alaska St...
06/23/11 In this installment of the Butterfly Effect, climate change is creating incredible economic opportunity in the Arctic, leading to saber rattling from Canada and Russia. Whichever region benefits the most will have enormous geopolitical consequences. 1. The Great Melt. In August 2007, a robotic Russian sub planted a titanium flag on the seabed at the North Pole, an act dismissed as a PR stunt by ...
06/17/11 I always thought Santa Claus owned the North Pole, but it seems I was wrong, because Denmark is about to lay claim to the continental shelf around Greenland and the Faroe Islands, including the North Pole.
06/10/11 Billy Balog is starting to heat up, and that's bad news for the rest of the drivers in the Interstate Racing Association 410 Sprint Car Series. Balog, who is originally from North Pole, Alaska, but
05/29/11 High ticket prices won't stop Nayda Collins from flying to Central Texas next week to visit family and friends. The Killeen native lives near in North Pole, Alaska, with her husband, an Army chief warrant officer deployed to Afghanistan with the 52nd Aviation Regiment, based out of Fort Wainwright.
05/17/11 Move over Ruskies. The Danes want to lay claim to the North Pole.
05/16/11 Twenty five years ago this month, a team of polar explorers including Elyites Will Steger and Paul Schurke, and fellow Minnesotan Ann Bancroft, reached the North Pole after enduring 56 days and 1,000 zigzag miles across fractured, shifting sea ice in temperatures that dipped below -70F.
05/15/11 The first pilot to fly over the North Pole was killed 18 months later when his plane crashed while he was trying to rescue passengers and cargo from a ship that was lodged in the ice off the shore of Siberia. Talk about this topic
05/15/11 The first pilot to fly over the North Pole was killed 18 months later when his plane crashed while he was trying to rescue passengers and cargo from a ship that was lodged in the ice off the shore of Siberia. Carl Ben Eielson was also the first airmail pilot in Alaska and Atlanta. Not only is Eielson a hero in North Dakota, but Alaska honors him as one of their own. Talk about this topic
05/10/11 You've heard the grim timelines: if warming continues, the Great Barrier Reef will be bleached by 2030; glaciers in the Swiss Alps, on Mt. Kilimanjaro, and in Glacier National Park will disappear in under 40 years; and Arctic ice melt will leave the North Pole bare and polar bears extinct.
05/01/11 Posted: May 01, 2011 10:12 pm EDT Greg Mortenson on trial, Erhard Loretan killed, Ueli Steck's unexpected climb, Abele Blanc done at last: in a fairly calm (so far) Himalaya climbing season the news have been anything but. Other: North Pole is closed and Kagge penned notes from the underground.
04/25/11 ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Former British Royal Air Force pilot Douglas Cairns succeeded in flying his light plane to the North Pole and landing it there this week, overcoming strong headwinds, the failure of his satellite-based navigation system and his diabetes to earn a place in aviation record books.
04/21/11 Capt. George H. Wilkins announced that he and Carl B. Elelson had flown over the North Pole from Point Barrow, Alaska, and had a narrow escape from disaster at the end of their adventure. The narrow escape ...
04/19/11 Award-winning children's book creator Chris Van Allsburg is a master of fantasy and the surreal, whether conjuring up a mysterious train to the North Pole for "The Polar Express" or a board game erupting with a live lion and monkeys in "Jumanji."
04/17/11 A team of wounded soldiers were celebrating in the Arctic after they reached the North Pole. Prince Harry, who took part in the first four days of the expedition, said he was "thrilled" and was first to congratulate them on their "awesome achievement" by satellite phone.
04/16/11 Posted: Apr 16, 2011 11:50 am EDT In the past Week in Review choppers had taken off for Barneo, on the Russian side of the North Pole. Lists of expeditions went up for Himalaya and summer Karakoram both.
04/12/11 It was an unseasonable 80-plus degrees for mid-April baseball game yesterday, but it probably still looked and felt like Christmas to Arundel. Unfortunately for Broadneck, the presents came gift-wrapped from Cape St. Claire instead of the North Pole. The Bruins walked nine, committed four errors and let back-to-back runs score on wild pitches as Arundel (3-4) accepted an easy, five-inning, 11-1 ...
04/11/11 (AP:POST FALLS, Idaho) An Alaska company has stepped into buy the State Line Speedway in northern Idaho. Track officials confirmed this week that Competitive Edge LLC, based in North Pole, Alaska, acquired the 37-year-old speedway from Walt and Joe Doellefeld.
04/11/11 POST FALLS, Idaho - An Alaska company has stepped into buy the State Line Speedway in northern Idaho. Track officials confirmed this week that Competitive Edge LLC, based in North Pole, Alaska, ...
03/31/11 Prince Harry spends the night in minus 25 temperatures with only a tent and his North Pole expedition leader to keep him warm. Find out what he had to say to reporters about his first night inside the Arctic Circle. | 
