Alaska News

Lawmakers are set to hear a proposed ballot initiative that would revive Alaska's coastal management program.

Later today, the Senate Resources Committee will begin a three-day overview regarding a recent decision that significantly increased the value of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline.

The Air Force issued a white paper last week on how it plans the tricky maneuver of shrinking and reconfiguring its operations with a new focus on Asia and the Pacific.

Interior Alaskans got a big turnaround this weekend as temperatures warmed up 70 to 80 degrees in some spots from the deep cold only days before.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski announced that she has nominated 37 young Alaskans for appointment to the U.S. military service academies for the class of 2016.

An unfair labor practice charge filed by the Fairbanks school district against the local teachers union could take months or even a year to resolve, according to Mark Torgerson, a hearing examiner with the Alaska Labor Relations Agency.

While oil taxes are expected to dominate this week at the Legislature, there are other contentious issues on tap.

If you are viewing this on a device that does not support flash, visit http://www.adn.com/2012/02/05/v-gallery2/2301712/alaska-ski-for-women.html From low sunlight, plunging temperatures and massive snow fall, Alaska's winter are an extreme mix of beauty and danger.

The memories are still vivid, former Staff Sgt. Paul Taylor said. That was why after receiving the third-highest decoration in all U.S. military branches, he had his daughter, Laura, say his thanks.

Community perspective Earlier this month, Department of Natural Resources employees received an email from a deputy commissioner saying that their mission statement had been changed.

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial "A corporation is not a person," according to a common rallying cry recently given voice in Alaska as a bill before the Legislature.

For the past hundred years, the only name for the plague killing off economically valuable yellow-cedars has been " yellow-cedar decline ." The die-off has affected about 60 to 70 percent of the yellow-cedars in forests covering 600,000 acres of the North Pacific Coastal Rainforest in Alaska and neighboring British Columbia.

The Circle District Historical Society Museum in Central, Alaska, houses several lovely old dog sleds, including some that would be familiar to most Alaskans - "basket" sleds with runners.

It looked like a painting to me, but I am assured by the American Society of Media Photographers that this is a photograph by Wayde Carroll.

The pucks were flying at Scott Greenham all night, but none of the Western Michigan Broncos could get one by the University of Alaska-Fairbanks senior goalie until there was 25 seconds left on the clock Saturday.

Last winter, readers returning from trips to Juneau raved about a new play they had seen at Perseverance Theatre, "The Blue Bear." “THE BLUE BEAR” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday through Feb.

Doyon Emerald, a full-service engineering and consulting firm, said Jan. 27 that it was recognized for its marketing communications efforts by the Public Relations Society of America, PRSA, Alaska Chapter at their annual Aurora Awards Banquet held on Jan.

BRAY'S POINT, Ore. - A dim ripple warning about abduction ran across his mind after waking at 3:33 a.m. each and every morning since being abducted by non-human intelligences.

Fairbanks leaders fear a proposal to relocate Eielson Air Force Base's F-16 squadron to Anchorage will have a drastic economic impact on the Interior, and expect to see the local community rise up in the same kind of protest that forestalled a base closure seven years ago.

In January, a small team of federal officials were to visit a handful of Alaska villages to discuss with local tribal leaders the proposed multibillion-dollar gas pipeline project - one government to another.