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Aviation & Alaska Airlines in the Small Town of Bethel, Alaska - Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)

Aviation & Alaska Airlines in the Small Town of Bethel, Alaska
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Alaska customer service agents Heidi Tokar (left) and Julie Bilbey (right), of Bethel, are dressed in a typical winter-weather gear for this remote area of .

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Denali: Pipeline to proceed without Alaska support - Product Design & Development
An official working on Alaska's proposed $30-billion Denali pipeline said there are benefits to moving the project ahead without help from the Alaskan government, which its competitors have secured. BP and ConocoPhillips are working together on ...

Sarah Palin Pitching TV Show About Alaska (KOLO 8 Reno)
Producer Mark Burnett says he is pitching a series to television networks that would be about Alaska seen through the eyes of its most famous resident, Sarah Palin...

Judge OKs bankruptcy
A bankruptcy judge approved Affiliated Media Inc.'s reorganization plan Thursday and freed the publisher of The Monterey County Herald and 53 other daily newspapers from most of its debt...

Alaska draws Pittsville native north - marshfieldnewsherald.com
Picture yourself living in a small town with 94 inhabitants, only three households having running water, temperatures varying from a high of 90 in the summer to a low of -70 in the winter and the closest major city is 160 miles away. David Masephol ...

Mike's Blog Roundup
TOPICS Mike's Blog Round Up Login or Register to post comments. 4 comments Thanks Mike! Fri, 03/05/2010 - 05:21 - Right Wing Hater The Climate Progress article, is especially foreboding.. Well.at least ExxonMobil's profits keep going up.too bad their grandchildren will be in bubbles for the entire adult lives. Drill Here, Drill now! But ...

Denali: Pipeline to proceed without Alaska support - BusinessWeek

Denali: Pipeline to proceed without Alaska support
BusinessWeek
An official working on Alaska's proposed $30-billion Denali pipeline said there are benefits to moving the project ahead without help from the Alaskan .
House Finance members question gas line spendingAlaska Dispatch
Plans call for back-to-back open seasonsKTUU

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Palin teams with Mark "Survivor" Burnett to pitch "a show about Alaska . - Democratic Underground.com
Fox News Channel may not be Sarah Palin's only foray into television. The former vice presidential candidate has been pitching an idea for a show about Alaska to network executives. She's teamed with Mark Burnett, one of television's busiest ...

Public Lecture by Dr. .
Please plan to attend this exciting public lecture, as Dr. Sven Haakanson, Jr. discusses the knowledge and abilities of Alaska's Indigenous people to design and construct complex equipment, housing and tools without the use of modern technology...

Grizzlies Fall 5-2 In Alaska - OurSports Central
Anchorage, Alaska - The Alaska Aces defeated the Utah Grizzlies (26-24-2-5) 5-2 Wednesday night at the Sullivan Arena. Utah built an early 2-0 lead with two goals in a 7:03 span and in the first 10:50 of the contest to go up by a count of 2-0. Both ...

IBEW uneasy about recent ACS layoffs
Alaska Communication System's layoff of 21 Fairbanks employees Wednesday has led to speculation the communication company is shifting its work force away from the Interior - a claim ACS refutes...

Alaska Nanooks are braced for CCHA playoff storm (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner)
FAIRBANKS EUR” The Alaska Nanooks have had a calm this week before the storm that is known as the first round of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association playoffs. Alaskas calmness was evident amon...

Senators: Lift ban on gays donating blood
The time has come to change a policy that imposes a lifetime ban on donating blood for any man who has had gay sex since 1977, 18 senators said Thursday...

Alaska Aces Nip Utah Grizzlies 3-2 - ECHL - MLN - The Raw Feed (blog)

Alaska Aces Nip Utah Grizzlies 3-2 - ECHL
MLN - The Raw Feed (blog)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Nick Mazzolini scored his second game-winning goal in as many nights, snapping a 2-2 tie late in the second period, while Scott Reid .
Grizzlies Fall 3-2 In AlaskaOurSports Central (press release)
Aces extend home winning streak to 10 over GrizzliesKTUU
Rookies goals lead Aces' winAnchorage Daily News
TheNewsTribune.com
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Cone faces uncertain future as Alaska coach - GMA news.tv

GMA news.tv

Cone faces uncertain future as Alaska coach
GMA news.tv
Tim Cone's success as Alaska coach is anchored behind the Aces' vaunted Triangle Offense, a strategy that helped the squad in building a Philippine .
Cone's fate with Aces uncertainManila Standard Today
One Game at a Time Playing a song from an old recordInquirer.net
Purefoods sweeps Alaska for titleArab News
Cebu Daily News -Manila Bulletin -Manila Standard Today
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Jamaican pride: Marshall's trek to Alaska serves as inspiration - USA Today
Newton Marshall trained for sled-dog racing with stray mutts pulling a sled on wheels through the streets of Jamaica. Now he's poised to begin the grueling Iditarod race across the snow-streaked interior of Alaska , where he faces fierce weather and ...

Suspect in woman's slaying held in Alaska. (Denver Post)
A 43-year-old man incarcerated in Alaska has been arrested in the death of Angela Wilds, 38, whose body was found in a shallow grave southwest of Lyons in 2006...

McCarran International Airport traffic declines a bit
Fri, Mar 5, 2010 Passenger counts at McCarran International Airport showed a fractional decline in January from last year...

Sarah Palin Reality Show? Palin Shopping Alaska TV Docudrama
Sarah Palin is making the most of her time in LA. Fresh off her appearance on the "Tonight Show," Palin is meeting with network executives to pitch a reality show alongside "Survivor" creator Mark Burnett...

Alaska Communications Systems Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2009 Results - MarketWatch (press release)

Alaska Communications Systems Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2009 Results
MarketWatch (press release)
"While the softer Alaska economy and iPhone(TM) competition dogged results, we drove spending in 2009 to be $4.1 million below 2008, and ended the year with .
Alaska Communications 4Q loss narrowsThe Associated Press
Alaska Communications Systems Posts Narrower Loss In Q4 -UpdateRTT News
ACS names Michael Wynschenk as new VP Enterprise SalesTrading Markets (press release)

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Veterans Group Buying Ads in Support of Clean Energy Laws
A veterans group is spending nearly $30,000 in Maine for television ads urging Sens...

Sarah Palin pitching TV show about Alaska (Baltimore Sun)
A TV producer said Thursday he is pitching a series to television networks that would be about Alaska seen through the eyes of its most famous resident, Sarah Palin...

Looking Back in Fairbanks - March 5
"I think they should be more organized," declared Jon Dearborn, 16. Dearborn, along with his classmates and the more than 1,100 other public school sophomores in the borough will break the seals on their test booklets next week and sit with No...

New source of Arctic methane emissions - Alaska Dispatch

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New source of Arctic methane emissions
Alaska Dispatch
According to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, a team of researchers lead by two scientists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks have made a surprising .
Methane seeps rise from Siberian sea shelvesLos Angeles Times (blog)
Study Says Undersea Release of Methane Is Under WayNew York Times
Seabed methane leaks cause alarmThe Age
TG Daily -Oneindia -ABC News
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Methane seen as growing climate risk - San Francisco Chronicle
. amount of methane currently coming out of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf is comparable to the amount coming out of the entire world's oceans," said Natalia Shakhova, of the University of Alaska Fairbanks International Arctic Research Center and ...

Alaska News Nightly: March 4, 2010 | APRN
Individual news stories are posted in the Alaska News category and you can subscribe to APRN's news feeds via email, podcast and RSS. Download Audio...

The 1964 Alaska Earthquake and Tsunami | World Wide Web
The 1964 Anchorage, Alaska, earthquake and the resulting tsunami struck without warning on Good Friday, March 27. It was a quiet...

Aviation & Alaska Airlines in the Small Town of Bethel, Alaska .
Meet Bethel, Alaska. The town is located about 340 miles west of Anchorage and about 40 miles inland from the Bering Sea. There are only ten miles of paved...

Palin shops Alaskan adventure show - New York Post

Sydney Morning Herald

Palin shops Alaskan adventure show
New York Post
The former Alaska governor has teamed up with Mark Burnett, the powerhouse reality show producer behind "Survivor" and "The Apprentice," to make a .
Sarah Palin pitching TV show about AlaskaThe Associated Press
Sarah Palin, Hollywood critic, pitches television networks on Alaska seriesLos Angeles Times (blog)
Should Sarah Palin Do an Alaska Reality Show?People Magazine
Boston Globe -New York Daily News -FOXNews
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Study Finds East Siberian Arctic Shelf Showing Instability and.
Top left. Bubble plumes rising from the seafloor registered by geophysical instrumentation...

Sitka, Mt. Edgecumbe high schools' rivalry is friendly, students say
SITKA, ALASKA Sitka High School and Mt. Edgecumbe High School have a decades-old cross-town rivalry...

UAF researchers' methane discovery could change climate equation
Photo courtesy Igor Semiletov, UAF Scientists deploy an apparatus to take sonar measurements from the seafloor on the East Siberian Arctic Shelf in August...

Inside Alaska business (Anchorage Daily News)
Alaska business news in brief..

Suspect in woman's slaying held in Alaska. - Denver Post

Anchorage Daily News

Suspect in woman's slaying held in Alaska.
Denver Post
A 43-year-old man incarcerated in Alaska has been arrested in the death of Angela Wilds, 38, whose body was found in a shallow grave southwest of Lyons in .
Man in Alaska prison suspected in Colo. deathKRDO
Man arrested in Alaska for Colorado murder9NEWS.com
Man held in suspicion of 2006 Lyons murder caseLongmont Daily Times-Call

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Review St. Louis | Sarah Palin Pitched Alaska Reality TV Show To .
Sarah Palin and Mark Burnett Pitch Reality TV Show About Alaska According to Entertainment Weekly, Sarah Palin is shopping around an idea for a reality TV show in Alaska. It looks like her first instinct is to go to reality TV show ...

Palin, Mark Burnett pitch Alaska reality show - Houston Chronicle
NEW YORK EUR” Producer Mark Burnett said Thursday he is pitching a series to television networks that would be about Alaska seen through the eyes of its most famous resident, Sarah Palin. Palin and Burnett have been meeting this week to talk about the ...

Ex-Globe-Times editor, Pulitzer-winner dies
Award-winning journalist John Strohmeyer, who was the editor of the former Bethlehem Globe-Times newspaper for 28 years and the only writer for a Lehigh Valley publication to win the Pulitzer Prize , died Wednesday night of heart failure...

Delta bison hunters can use radios, cell phones
Cell phones, two-way radios and satellite phones are now fair game for Delta bison hunters...

Lawmakers seek EPA delay
Coalfield legislators closed ranks Thursday and simultaneously introduced legislation in both houses of congress aimed at delaying the Environmental Protection Agency from implementing additional regulations on greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources including coal-fired power plants...

Wonk Room » Murkowski Wants To Save Alaska By Destroying It
Before climate policy had a chance of becoming reality, Murkowski claimed to recognize that global warming from fossil fuels is destroying Alaska. Now, she has continued down that path by demanding that drilling in the Arctic National ...

Exclusive: Sarah Palin shopping Alaska TV docudrama with Mark .
Sarah Palin, TV producer? Multiple sources confirm that Palin and uber-reality show producer Mark Burnett have been making the rounds in Hollywood this week ...

Alaska Communications 4Q loss narrows (AP via Yahoo! News)
Local phone company Alaska Communications Systems Group Inc. on Thursday reported a smaller loss for the fourth quarter even as revenue fell, because the 2008 quarter's loss was inflated by a hefty charge to write down the value of assets...

Sarah Palin to Produce Alaska Documentary - The Hollywood Gossip
Sarah Palin is producing an Alaska documentary with Mark Burnett. Now that would be worth seeing...

Man in Alaska prison suspected in Colo. death - Denver Post
Angerer was at the Anchorage Corrections Complex for a probation violation charge when authorities issued a warrant for his arrest last month. He is being held on suspicion of second-degree murder for the death of 38-year-old Angela Josephine Wilds...

Sarah Palin pitching TV show about Alaska (AP via Yahoo! News)
Producer Mark Burnett said Thursday he is pitching a series to television networks that would be about Alaska seen through the eyes of its most famous resident, Sarah Palin...

Alaska Department of Fish and Game plans aerial wolf hunts
For the second year in a row, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game plans to use a helicopter to shoot wolves from the air in the Fortymile region near Tok as part of its predator control program...

Palin TV tour of Alaska mooted (The Age)
A television series about Alaska seen through the eyes of its most famous resident, Sarah Palin, is being pitched to networks in the US...

Sarah Palin shopping Alaska reality show -- The Live Feed | THR
Palin and her family would be followed on-camera in the show, which one network executive described as "'Planet Earth' meets Alaska meets her family," referring to Discovery's high-definition nature hit. ...

Utah Grizzlies: Grizzlies drop 3-2 duel in Alaska (Deseret News)
The Alaska Aces defeated the Utah Grizzlies 3-2 on Thursday night at the Sullivan Arena...

Alaska Airlines Snubs Wi-Fi Provider Row 44 -- Not to Mention Its . - BNET
Most U.S.-based airlines have gone with Aircells GoGo product for their domestic needs, but Alaska and Southwest (LUV) had decided to test with Row 44. The benefits of Row 44 to Alaska were obvious. While Aircells footprint roughly sits on top ...

Cone faces uncertain future as Alaska coach (GMANews.TV via Yahoo! Philippines News)
Tim Cones success is as Alaska coach is anchored behind the Aces vaunted Triangle Offense, an offensive strategy that helped the squad in building a Philippine Basketball Association dynasty in the 1990s...

Magnitude 2.5 - SOUTHERN ALASKA
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, responsible for monitoring, reporting, and researching earthquakes and earthquake hazards...

Methane seen as growing climate risk
Methane had become trapped in the permafrost over time and a warming climate is now resulting in its release, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Science...

Exclusive: Sarah Palin shopping Alaska TV docudrama with Mark Burnett - Entertainment Weekly Online
Image Credit: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images Sarah Palin, TV producer? Multiple sources confirm that Palin and uber-reality show producer Mark Burnett have been . confirmed that she met with reality topper Mike Darnell yesterday at Fox (where she ...

Stars will indulge after Oscars
Skinny stars better not try and count calories after the Academy Awards. "On Oscar Day we don't watch calories," Wolfgang Puck said, speaking outside the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood...

Oasis Petroleum plans $350 million IPO
Overseas Shipholding Group Inc. said Thursday it agreed to sell 3.5 million common shares in a public offering...

Palin Loads Up On Swag At Celebrity Gift Suite
Share + Mar 5, 2010 7:25 am US/Eastern WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. 1 of 1 Former Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin holds her son Trig as she arrives for a book signing event for her new book "Going Rogue" at a Barnes & Noble bookstore on Nov...

Sarah Palin to turn into a reality TV star
Sarah Palin is all set to star in a reality TV show that shows her familys life in Alaska, according to reports...

UC Davis vet school alum to compete in Alaska's Iditarod - Sacramento Bee

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UC Davis vet school alum to compete in Alaska's Iditarod
Sacramento Bee
Rose, 47, is excited by the prospect of adventure and solitude racing along the Yukon River, over the rough Alaska Range and along the dramatic Norton Sound .
Iridium Provides Satellite Voice and Data Communications for 2010 Iditarod .MarketWatch (press release)
Jamaican pride: Marshall's trek to Alaska serves as inspirationUSA Today
Once again the dogs, mushers head to NomeMat-Su Valley Frontiersman
KTUU -Anchorage Daily News -SportingNews.com (blog)
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Alaska Gets First Climate Science Center - Farm Futures

Michigan Farmer

Alaska Gets First Climate Science Center
Farm Futures
The Department of the Interior has selected the University of Alaska to be the first of eight planned regional Climate Science Centers in the nation. .
Alaska to host Interior's first climate science centerGovExec.com
Interior Department chooses Alaska for climate centerAnchorage Daily News
Two plans are on the way for coastal drilling leasesHouston Chronicle
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