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09/15/19 05:00 AM
One degree of effort makes all the difference
By Charlie Dexter

09/13/19 09:19 PM
Email indicates former Alaska official invited woman to room
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An email from Alaska's former first lady sheds new light on the actions that drove Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott from office, suggesting he may have invited a woman into his room, newly released emails shows.

09/13/19 09:14 PM
In Alaska hometown, Native women say police ignored rapes
Survivors and advocates contend that Nome police pay less attention and investigate less aggressively when sexual assaults are reported by Alaska Native women. More than half of Nome's population is Alaska Native.

09/13/19 07:45 AM
Homicide detectives investigate death in Anchorage woods
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Anchorage homicide detectives are investigating the death of a man found in a wooded area on the city's east side.

09/13/19 05:16 AM
Alaska considering early close for telephone, internet fund
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska regulators are considering whether the state should continue replenishing a rural telephone and internet service fund or shut it down, a report said.

09/13/19 05:13 AM
Coast Guard suspends part of Alaska tour company boat fleet
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended operations of most boats operated by a southeast Alaska tour company, officials said.

09/12/19 04:05 PM
US biologists eye unusual deaths of Alaska ice seals
The cause of death for nearly 300 ringed, bearded and spotted seals since June 1, 2018, is not known, according to the fisheries arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

09/12/19 03:31 PM
Oilfield company denies assault of workers by toxic release
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A Texas-based oilfield service company denies that it assaulted an Alaska construction crew by exposing workers to toxic chemical releases.

09/12/19 09:17 AM
House votes to bar Arctic drilling; Senate action unlikely
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic-controlled House on Thursday voted to reinstate a decades-long ban on oil and gas drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — a largely symbolic move aimed at reversing a plan by President Donald Trump to…

09/12/19 08:17 AM
Alaska man charged with opening cargo door during flight
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A rural Alaska man suspected of opening a cargo door of a small commercial airplane while in flight has been charged with felony assault and criminal mischief.

09/12/19 05:30 AM
Alaska school's fuel tanks safely transported from community
BETHEL, Alaska (AP) — Clear weather has allowed a school's fuel tanks to be removed from an Alaska community where they were threatened by riverbank erosion, a report said.

09/12/19 05:16 AM
Conservationists, hunters criticize Alaska mining road plan
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Conservationists and hunters have criticized a state proposal to construct a mining road through northwest Alaska, a report said.

09/12/19 12:40 AM
In small Alaska city, Native women say police ignored rapes
NOME, Alaska (AP) — There's not much that scares Susie. As an Alaska Native woman, she thrives amid sub-zero winters in her village near the Arctic Circle, and camps with her family each summer at the Bering Sea, catching, drying…

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TRAVEL GUIDE covers the entire length of the Alaska Highway, from "Mile 0" in Dawson Creek, BC through the Yukon to Whitehorse and on into Alaska's Interior and the Far North. An invaluable resource for traveling the North, Travel Guide provides engaging travel information on major urban centers, unique out-of-the-way places, National Parks and the paradise of fjords and glaciers of Southeast Alaska's Inside Passage, with special fishing and wildlife viewing adventure editorial about Valdez, Homer and the Kenai Peninsula, Kodiak Island and Katmai.

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