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May 09, 2008 at 11:25AM AKST
Twenty-eight Unalaska City High School band students and six chaperones set out last month for a combined trip of Disneyland Magic Music Days and the Region II Music Festival.
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Just in from Shishmaref science teacher Ken Stenek: On this late April day, two house sparrows are singing their little hearts out while perched on the metal roof of the Shishmaref School.
full story »May 09, 2008 at 11:20AM AKST
Alaska Positive 2008, a statewide photography-as-art exhibition organized every two years by the Alaska State Museum in Juneau, opened with a reception on Friday, May 2.
full story »May 09, 2008 at 11:20AM AKST
Seventeen Alaska and Canada Natives have been linked by DNA to an ancient man whose remains were found in 1999 in a glacier.
full story »May 09, 2008 at 11:20AM AKST
It’s hard to account for a work force if you don’t know who or where it is. full story »May 02, 2008 at 10:12AM AKST
Alisa Gilbert is committed to bringing quality health care to Alaska Natives
full story »May 02, 2008 at 10:12AM AKST
The 2008 Alaska legislative session might be a near wrap, but several new "fish laws" are still moving at a good clip through Congress.
full story »May 02, 2008 at 10:12AM AKST
The Alaska Energy Authority has begun a sequence of meetings it will present in 25 communities around the state with the goals of hearing what Alaskans know about local energy resources and asking how they think those resources can be developed to lower energy costs.
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Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation has created a memorial fund in honor of Mindy Schloss, a long-time health care worker who served village clinics throughout the state.
full story »April 25, 2008 at 9:56AM AKST
Cathy Cahill got a package in the mail last week from a desert on the other side of the world. She didn’t know what was inside, but she hoped it was air samples from Baghdad. When she opened the package, she didn’t believe her eyes.
full story »April 25, 2008 at 9:55AM AKST
The Alaska Army National Guard transformation ceremony from the 207th Infantry Group (Scout) to the 297th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade (Scout) and 38th Troop Command took place Sunday, April 13, at Buckner Physical Fitness Center on Fort Richardson.
full story »April 25, 2008 at 9:53AM AKST
The 25th Annual Rural Providers Conference is set for June 2-6 in Glennallen.
full story »April 25, 2008 at 9:53AM AKST
An educational program that teaches the use of traditional foods to boost health among Alaska Natives has received its own boost in funds.
full story »April 25, 2008 at 9:53AM AKST
Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd, welcomed the arrival of their fifth child on Friday, April 18, in Anchorage.
full story »April 25, 2008 at 9:53AM AKST
High fuel prices have idled 20 percent of Kodiak’s trawl fleet and hundreds of local seafood workers. full story »April 25, 2008 at 9:53AM AKST
During the 2008 Alaska Press Club journalism awards banquet in Anchorage on Saturday, four out of six weekly newspapers owned by Alaska Newspapers won awards.
full story »April 25, 2008 at 9:53AM AKST
Alaska residents can pick up a little piece of the state at the Alaska Department of Natural Resources’ Spring 2008 Alaska State Land Offering.
full story »April 18, 2008 at 10:32AM AKST
Twenty-nine artists with more than 80 works of art represented the community of Unalaska at the 16th Annual Community Art Show’s opening reception on Friday, April 11.
full story »April 18, 2008 at 9:57AM AKST
BP and ConocoPhillips have combined resources to start Denali – The Alaska Gas Pipeline, according to a written statement from the companies.
full story »April 18, 2008 at 9:57AM AKST
Three Alaskans received the American Hospital Association’s Award for Volunteer Excellence, which recognizes work for the Alaska Native Medical Center, in particular gathering its museum-quality art collection.
full story »April 18, 2008 at 9:57AM AKST
Some news from the Alaska Bird Conference, held this spring in Fairbanks:
full story »April 18, 2008 at 9:57AM AKST
Alaska residents can pick up a little piece of the state at the Alaska Department of Natural Resources’ Spring 2008 Alaska State Land Offering.
full story »April 18, 2008 at 9:57AM AKST
CAMP DENALI – Members of the Alaska Air National Guard’s 168th Air Refueling Wing welcomed their new commander, Col. Donald "Scott" Wenke, and said goodbye to Col. John O. Griffin in a change of command ceremony on April 5.
full story »April 18, 2008 at 9:55AM AKST
Scientists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and several national programs are partnering to collect additional data in an effort to better understand an atmospheric condition dubbed Arctic haze.
full story »April 11, 2008 at 8:23AM AKST
Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich hasn’t announced he’ll run for U.S. Senate, but incumbent Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, is already asking him to wage an issue-focused campaign free of “smear tactics and attack politics."
full story »April 10, 2008 at 9:21AM AKST
The Interior Department has agreed to decide by February whether the rare yellow-billed loon should be listed under the Endangered Species Act, according to a written statement from the Center for Biological Diversity.
full story »April 08, 2008 at 9:29AM AKST
BP and ConocoPhillips have combined resources to start Denali – The Alaska Gas Pipeline. The pipeline will move approximately four billion cubic feet of natural gas per day to markets, and will be the largest private sector construction project ever built in North America, according to a written statement from the companies.
full story »April 08, 2008 at 9:07AM AKST
The Bush Administration today took the first step toward opening up 5.6 million acres in the Bering Sea off Alaska to oil and gas leasing. The proposal, published in today’s Federal Register by the Department of Interior’s Minerals Management Service, would allow oil development in an area north of the Aleutian Islands near Bristol Bay that has been designated critical habitat for the North Pacific right whale, according to a written statement from the Center for Biological Diversity.
full story »April 07, 2008 at 8:12AM AKST
The Alaska Humanities Forum is offering a total of $1 million to projects that explore statehood.
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