VIEWS: Anchorage, Alaska unsettled over moose shooting
When is it a big deal to shoot a bull moose this time of year in Alaska? Only when it
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Special Features
FEATURE INTERVIEW: Is Barents transport plan a model for the Beaufort region in the North American Arctic?
Transport Ministers from the four Barents countries: Russia, Finland, Sweden and Norway,released the Joint Barents Transport Plan this week
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Canadian diamond mine uses wind power in Northwest Territories
The Diavik Diamond Mine in Canada’s Northwest Terriotires is using a wind farm, which was installed about a year ago,
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FEATURE INTERVIEW: Cleaning up Canada’s Arctic radar sites
The Distant Early Warning Line system, known as the DEW Line, was a Cold War-era radar site that operated across
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Perils of Prohibition: History repeats in Alaska’s failed attempt to stamp out booze
The worst of what Alaska’s war on alcohol has brought to the impoverished, rural areas of the state — a
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High-tech tools to help search for 19th century ships lost in Canada’s Arctic
Parks Canada is spending $475,000 to buy two high-tech research tools it hopes could help crack the mystery of the
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Perils of Prohibition: Drowning the past in rural Alaska
EDITOR’S NOTE: For three decades, alcohol has anchored the debate about the future of rural Alaska. That liquor and homebrew spread
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UN report critical of Sweden’s treatment of the Sami
The United Nations has criticised Sweden’s mining policy saying the nation should give greater support to the Sami people who
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ANALYSIS: Perils of Prohibition – Alaska’s failed war on booze
Alaska’s war on alcohol, a costly and painful crusade waged for decades in remote villages across the rural vastness of
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Dinosaurs: paleontologist puts Alaska on map
Long before tourists traipsed around Denali National Park there were dinosaurs, thousands of them, including a sickle-toed pack hunter who
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Defence considerations threatening wind power investments in Finland
Large investments in creating wind power farms in south-eastern Finland have been blocked because the planned wind turbines would cause
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Crews unearth military history on Alaska Glacier
Colony Glacier, about 50 miles from Alaska’s largest city of Anchorage, may look calm on the surface, but it’s a
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Land dispute causes development ban in southern Nunavut, Canada
The federal government has prohibited development on several parcels of Crown land in the southern region of Canada’s eastern Arctic
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Survey: Finns wary of following Sweden into NATO
According to a fresh Yle survey, a majority of Finns don’t think that Finland should join the NATO military alliance,
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Crowded Bethel, Alaska domestic violence shelter pulls double duty
Four months have passed since Christina David fled an abusive relationship and found herself and her granddaughter under the auspices
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