Searchers return to Alaska glacier to recover remains from 1952 military plane crash
A team of military searchers, anthropologists and mountaineers is once again trying to turn back the clock on the crash of
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Author: Sean Doogan, Alaska Dispatch
Alaska investors nervous as oil price drop plays out
With the state of Alaska facing a budget deficit of $3.5 billion this year due in large part to lower oil prices and
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Aviation company inspiring new attitudes with altitude in rural Alaska
A small helicopter company is hoping to expand its fledgling program designed to inspire Alaska village students into pursuing careers
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Two Alaska Native artifacts return home after clandestine auction bid by nonprofit
Two Alaska Native artifacts have been returned to local Native organizations after some behind-the-scenes intervention from the U.S. State Department
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Army uses Big Lake, Alaska as drop zone for paratrooper training
About 200 Army paratroopers from the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment jumped into Big Lake, about 50 miles north of Anchorage,
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Musk ox invasion keeps wildlife managers busy in Alaskan city
Nome is used to rowdy residents, but some relatively new transplants are making a real nuisance of themselves — although
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Geothermal could be key to Nome, Alaska’s power problem
Scientists and drillers are searching for hot water — and lots of it — at Pilgrim Hot Springs, 60 miles
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Shrinking Arctic ice forces walruses ashore in Alaska
Shrinking summer sea ice has forced thousands of walruses onto land near the village of Point Lay, Alaska — on
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Court upholds Shell’s Arctic spill response plans for offshore Alaska
A U.S. District Court judge has upheld the government’s approval of Shell Oil’s Arctic spill response plan. On Monday, federal
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Court upholds fishing restrictions for Alaska sea lions
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld a lower court’s ruling that keeps in place fishing closures
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Moving F-16 squadron to Anchorage, Alaska could shutter elementary school, mayor says
A proposed move of nearly two dozen F-16 fighter jets from the Fairbanks area to Southcentral could force an Anchorage
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Will idle Healy, Alaska power plant operate again?
For almost 14 years, a small power plant near Healy, Alaska, has been among the cleanest coal-fired power facilities in
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Alaska’s record-shattering summer sizzle due to end next week
Persistent warm temperatures are making Alaska’s late winter snowstorm in May a distant memory. In fact, this summer is one
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Alaska’s hardest-rocking library: Curating the past on behalf of the future
Tucked away inside a little-known state repository are tens of thousands of boxes filled with rocks that chart the history
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Underwater volcano mapped in Southeast Alaska
Jim Baichtal has a habit of cruising the website of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration looking for new hydrographic
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