Better technology stretches Arctic Alaska’s shrinking tundra travel season
A decade ago, oil operators on the North Slope found themselves in a climate predicament. The steady warming seen since
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2015 Alaskan wildfire tally below normal
So far this year, about 78,000 acres have burned in 280 fires in Alaska. That may sound like a lot,
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Alaska’s criminal justice system to be reviewed
Alaska’s prisons are filling up so fast state lawmakers have warned that despite the opening of a new facility in
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Hundreds of sled dogs rescued from Alaska wildfires
WILLOW — With the Sockeye fire still unpredictable late Monday, mushers who frantically evacuated their dogs Sunday afternoon waited to
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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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Village crime victims in Alaska need intervention, senators told
The U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee today heard pleas for better treatment of crime victims in Native communities. Gerad Godfrey, chairman
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Arctic artifacts temporarily back in Alaska for examination
A century ago, when the pioneering Canadian Arctic Expedition started to go awry, anthropologist Diamond Jenness found himself stranded for nearly a year on
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Plans to raise Arctic Alaska highway with 2 million tons of gravel
FAIRBANKS — It may be a 20-foot-wide trail to begin with, but the far-northern section of the Dalton Highway, ravaged by
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Alaska’s spring whaling season a success despite challenging sea ice
The spring whaling drought Barrow endured two years ago continues to ease, after subsistence whalers in the Arctic community landed nine
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Highway repairs underway after floodwaters drop in Arctic Alaska
Road crews began repairing the flood-battered Dalton Highway on Alaska’s North Slope over the Memorial Day weekend, bringing hope to
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Whaling group investigating report of bowhead calf taken in spring hunt
BETHEL – A report that a whaling crew from the village of Point Hope killed a bowhead calf will be
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Arctic-spanning fiber-optic project moves ahead in Alaska
Alaskans are playing a bigger role in an international project that seeks to link Europe and Asia with a fiber-optic cable
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Unique spring bird hunt brings hope of fresh meat after a long Alaska winter
BETHEL — One night after work last week, Pat Samson of Bethel rode his four-wheeler over a bumpy, muddy and
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Alaska councilman gets death threat for campaigning against heroin use
BETHEL — A Bethel City Council member trying to put attention on the destructiveness of heroin in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta
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Alaska city awash in alcohol even without legal sales
BETHEL — Even with no legal alcohol sales, the amount of hard liquor coming into this Western Alaska hub is
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