Public comments weeded out of Alaska pesticide permit process
Next month, state agencies seeking to use chemical pesticides on state land will undergo a new application process that no
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Alaska inventor turns wood stove heat into electricity
Looking at the warmth radiating from his friend’s wood stove pipe, Alaskan Theo Graber had an idea. What if someone
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What on Earth are bats doing in Alaska?
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, located in Southeast Alaska about 50 miles west of the state capital of Juneau,
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Feature: Alaska’s “Last Road North”
Ben Huff’s highly anticipated new photo series, “The Last Road North,” took the photographer five years, a small fortune in
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Alaska rights organization joins Yupik fishermen’s religious defense of fishing citations
Nearly two dozen Alaska Native fisherman accused of violating fishing bans last summer on the Kuskokwim River in the southwest
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White spruce may thrive as temperatures warm across subarctic Alaska
Though the U.S. Department of Agriculture has recently warned of big changes in store for the nation’s forests because of
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Bridge to (almost) nowhere in Alaska’s Katmai park will be pricey
The Alaska Region of the National Park Service announced this week it is moving ahead with a plan for a
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Shell Oil’s Arctic drill rigs Kulluk, Noble Discoverer headed to Asia for repairs
After weeks of relative silence, representatives with Royal Dutch Shell announced plans to move the centerpieces of its U.S. Arctic
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Alaska: Pipeline boom-era law shields Shell Oil from Kulluk property tax
The Kulluk is exempted from an oil and gas property tax that’s levied by the state of Alaska and that
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Auroral research rocket blasts into space from Alaska range
The aurora forecast Wednesday wasn’t looking too promising: the University of Alaska Fairbanks forecast page predicted only “quiet” activity, meaning
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Dismal Yukon Quest for Mackey shows how fast the mighty fall
As the top mushers in the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race take their big 40-hour break in Dawson City,
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Alaska’s North Slope may get blazing fast Internet access
An effort to tie Alaska into a proposed fiber-optic cable snaking between London and Japan has vanished from public view.
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Cause of beak deformities in Alaska continue to elude researchers
It’s been nearly 15 years since people started noticing a lot of Black-capped Chickadees in Southcentral Alaska suffering from overgrown
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Is Canada, US cooperation North America’s way forward in the Arctic?
For years now, Alaska lawmakers have lamented the seeming lack of progress in developing the U.S. Arctic, as countries like
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Study names Nome and Port Clarence, Alaska as best region for deep water Arctic port
Alaska’s long held dream of an Arctic deep water port has moved one step closer to reality. The U.S. Army
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