Alaska News
|
Staff at the University of Alaska have started a new project which will place dispensers in women's restrooms that contain pregnancy tests. The initiative costs millions but some say it is worth it.
|
|
King Cove -
The Aleut fishing community at King Cove is suing the government to install a one-lane road to a nearby airport. Residents claim that the lack of a route has actually endangered the lives of some villagers.
|
|
Country singer Doug Briney will release his new single "Unknown Soldier" on Monday, in honor of the Memorial Day holiday, to pay homage to the troops.
|
|
An Alaskan moose hunter, whose discovery of the corpse of a wanderer two decades ago helped lead to the 2007 movie "Into the Wild," has been shot and killed by police following a weekend chase thro...
In the Media
by Steve Quinn (Reuters) - 1 comment
|
|
A team of NASA scientists has found that strong mixing of air above cracked Arctic sea ice actually pulls down atmospheric mercury. This could lead to increased water contamination as a result.
|
|
For generations, the Pacific walrus population has inhabited and used the sea ice offshore in the northern Chukchi Sea as platforms during their winter stay, diving on the shallow continental shelf to reach snails, crabs and worms.
|
|
Alaska National Guard crews discovered relics from an Air Force cargo plane that slammed into a mountain in November 1952, killing all 52 servicemen on board. More material comes up to the surface as the glacier melts, including some human remains.
|
|
Ten people are dead after a propeller-powered air taxi plane operated by Rediske Air Inc. crashed yesterday at the airport in Soldonta, Alaska.
|
|
On June 21, a man, from Seattle, Washington, caught a fish off the coast of Alaska. The fish may be around the age of two-hundred-years-old.
|
|
A volcano located on the Alaskan peninsula is picking up in activity. Volcano Pavlof began rumbling in May, however, shot a 5-mile plume into the sky this week disrupting smaller aircraft which had to redirect to avoid the ash.
|
|
An Alaskan man was arrested by police, who say that he was driving a motorized shopping cart while drunk, and that he was in possession of cookies and cake mix that was stolen.
|
|
Digital Journal talks life, music and future ambitions with the fast-rising young country star of whom great things are expected.
|
|
Anchorage -
Jerry Andrew Active was on probation for assaulting a girl in 2009, when he allegedly raped a 2-year-old and killed her great-grand parents.
|
|
Yellowknife -
With the Northern Gateway and Keystone pipelines facing fierce resistance, Alberta is desperate to move its diluted bitumen and the North West Territories (NWT) is promoting a northern pipeline alternative to create jobs and improve its economy.
|
|
An Alaskan man, who was with his family, ended up walking away with only minor injuries after he got into a hands-on scuffle with the animal.
|
|
Bethel -
A rural Alaskan town, Bethel, is considering whether to borrow from state law and make it against the law for people to urinate or defecate in public.
|
|
In yet another gaffe for the Republican party, representative Don Young of Alaska, found himself apologising for a racist remark he made during a radio interview.
|
|
The debris from the tsunami which struck eastern Japan two years ago today could still be washing up on the western seaboard of Canada and the United States decades from now with, as yet, unknown consequences for marine life.
|
|
Whittier -
Ah Alaska covered in snow, a skier's dream, so why did one young man choose to ski through and out of a five-storey abandoned, haunted building, in Whittier?
|
|
Port Alexander -
A 6.0-magnitude earthquake has hit off the coast of Alaska on Thursday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey.
|
|
Social media activist group Fins and Fluke has joined with the EPA, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Hollywood star Robert Redford, to oppose the massive Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska.
|
|
Craig -
The coast of Alaska has experienced a 7.5-magnitude earthquake, followed by two aftershocks of 4.7 and 4.5 respectively and a tsunami warning (which has since been canceled). (Video update).
|
|
A scientist who witnessed polar bears drowning and helped to spur the global warming movement has been reprimanded for releasing government documents.
|
|
London -
Activists from Climate Justice Collective built an icy pyramid at Shell's London headquarters on Tuesday, in protest over Arctic oil drilling.
|
|
Anchorage -
Debris from an airplane crash found earlier this month on an Alaskan glacier near Anchorage has now been identified as military airplane from the 1950s. The plane had been used during the days of the Korean war.
|
|
One of Alaska's remote volcanoes, Cleveland Volcano, awoke from slumber earlier this week, shooting an ash cloud into the air.
|
|
Five climbers in Alaska's Denali National Park were swept away by an avalanche on Thursday. Today the rescue and recovery effort continues.
|
|
People in a town in Alaska were pretty excited after seeing fliers announcing that a Taco Bell was going to be opening up there. It ended up being a prank though.
|
|
Los Angeles -
Ever notice how those on the left, the political left, would have you believe they are kinder, smarter and more tolerant of differing ideologies and cultures than more conservative-minded folks?
|
|
Anchorage -
Rocker and gun advocate Ted Nugent reached a plea agreement Friday after being charged with one count of transporting an illegally hunted bear.
|
apis-242933 apis-242038 apis-240568 apis-232318 apis-222193 apis-215991 apis-209482 apis-209210 apis-208950 apis-208523 apis-207754 apis-206515 apis-206241 apis-205290 apis-204282 apis-202247 apis-201437 apis-199903 apis-197489 apis-196758 apis-196035 apis-194554 apis-187009 apis-185746 apis-179969 apis-179385 apis-179100 apis-179085 apis-178956 apis-175238
Alaska Image
Volksvagen decorations of the unknown traveller from Chile in Vancouver, Canada.
image:89574:3::0
image:80543:3::0
NASA
Satellite image of Bering Strait. Cape Dezhnev, Russia is on the left, the two Diomede Islands are in the middle, and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska is on the right.
image:93714:0::0
Screengrab / sagalm52
Five Floors Of Fury: Dude skis through an abandoned five-story building in Alaska
image:141022:0::0
Chad Hults / US Geological Survey geologist[
The summit of Mt. Cleveland, Alaska steaming
image:103404:0::0
Wikipedia
Large walrus on the ice. Alaska, Bering Sea
image:159560:0::0
Video screen capture
Debris from the Japanese tsunami last year.
image:113664:2::0
U.S. Forest Service
Aerial view of Craig, Alaska.
image:137898:0::0
"In this house we're tigers", the unknown traveller from Chile in Vancouver, Canada.
image:89575:4::0
Photo by Ryan McFarland
Joe Miller candidate for Alaska's Senator
image:78493:0::0
Courtesy of Suzanne Hickman
Valdez, Alaska snowstorm. January 2012.
image:104441:1::0
image:151290:0::0
image:101760:1::0
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Pavlof Volcano, Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge
image:152043:0::0
Courtesy of Suzanne Hickman
Many businesses remain open in the midst of record-breaking snowfall. Valdez, Alaska. January 2012.
image:104442:6::0
Beeblebrox via Wikimedia
A picture of the University of Alaska Kachemak Bay Campus which may be involved in the project.
image:193798:0::0
image:118094:0::0
Angela R. Talley
Rachele Lynae
image:149941:0::0
Suzanne Hickman
Digging out the boats on and off the water. Valdez, Alaska. Jan. 13, 2012
image:104443:5::0
Volksvagen beetle of the unknown traveller from Chile in Vancouver, Canada.
image:89572:4::0
|
|
