Anchorage Alaska

Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline Talks On Hold

AP | Posted 01.25.2012

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JUNEAU, Alaska -- Federal regulators have rescheduled a meeting in Anchorage on TransCanada Corp.'s proposed Alaska natural gas pipeline project. The...

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Alaska Teen Injected With Heroin Passes Away

AP | By RACHEL D'ORO | Posted 12.30.2011

Read More: Jena Dolstad, Video, Heroin Overdose, Heroin Injection, Anita Shell, Alaska Crime, Anchorage Alaska, Teen Tragedy, Drug Crime, High School News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- An Alaska teenager allegedly injected with heroin by a 26-year-old man died Thursday, almost a week after suffering the drug over...

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Gay Rights Activists Fight For Equality On The Last Frontier

Anchorage Daily News | ROSEMARY SHINOHARA | Posted 02.08.2012

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Sponsors of an initiative to extend legal protections against discrimination to gay and transgender people in Anchorage on Thursday turned in a severa...

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Woman Convicted Of Child Abuse After Squirting Hot Sauce Into Adopted Son's Mouth

AP | MARY PEMBERTON | Posted 10.24.2011

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A woman who squirted hot sauce into the mouth of her adopted Russian son for lying about getting in trouble in school was co...

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Suspicious Packages Sent To Alaska Senators, Congressman

AP | DAN JOLING | Posted 10.15.2011

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Suspicious packages were received through the mail Monday by Alaska's three-member congressional delegation and at least two cont...

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Police: Man Severely Beat 7-Year-Old Girl Who Refused To Give Up Her Bicycle

AP | Posted 08.06.2011

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Police say a 7-year-old girl who refused to give up her bicycle was severely beaten by an Anchorage man who had tried to steal it...

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Body Of Missing American Teacher Found In Japan

Reuters | Yereth Rosen | Posted 06.06.2011

April 6, 2011 7:28:32 PM By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 6 (Reuters) - The body of an Anchorage teacher who went missing in Japan f...

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Alaska Earthquake 2010: Moderate Quake Shakes Anchorage, Wasilla

AP | RACHEL D'ORO | Posted 05.25.2011

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An earthquake jolted Anchorage on Monday and was felt well beyond Alaska's largest city. The 4.9 magnitude quake struck at ...

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A tale of two rallies: Sarah Palin drops in on Wasilla crowd and Anchorage honks in protest

AlaskaDispatch.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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In Wasilla on Saturday, some 300 conservatives gathered to remember the 9/11 attacks. GOP Senate candidate Joe Miller was getting the attention. But t...

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Alaska's "Chronic Public Inebriates" Are People, Too

Mark Horvath | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Homelessness, invisiblepeople.tv, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Homeless, Alaska, Housing First, Invisible People, Anchorage-Alaska, Impact News

If you add the dehumanizing experience of living without permanent shelter to severe alcohol addiction, people will drink until they die. That's what's happening in Alaska.

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Palin heads to Fox News commentator job

Vail Daily. | Vail Daily | Posted 05.25.2011

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sarah Palin is taking her conservative message to Fox News. An attorney for the former Alaska governor and Republican v...

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After outcry, Postal Service will resume sending letters for Santa to North Pole, Alaska

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Wide-eyed children around the world will be hearing from Santa's "elves" at the North Pole after all. During Christmas season...

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Search under way in AK waters for ship passenger

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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A search has been launched in the waters of southeast Alaska and Canada for a 67-year-old woman reported missing from a cruise ship.

The passenger, who hasn't been identified, was noticed missing Wednesday morning when she didn't leave the Sapphire Princess at the Port of Vancouver, British Columbia.

The Princess Cruise liner departed Ketchikan on Monday on an Inside Passage cruise. The woman wasn't found during a search of the ship, and her personal belongings were in her state room.

The U.S. Coast Guard has sent a helicopter and boats to search from Ketchikan 86 miles south to include Dixon Entrance, Tongass Narrows and the northern end of Hecate Strait.

Canadian officials are searching from Vancouver 517 miles north to Hecate Strait.

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Soldier held in Afghanistan is 23-year-old Idahoan

AP | JOHN MILLER | Posted 05.25.2011

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A soldier from Idaho who disappeared from his base in Afghanistan has been captured, the Pentagon confirmed Sunday, a day after he was seen in a Taliban video posted online.

The Defense Department released the name of Pfc. Bowe (pronounced BOH) R. Bergdahl, 23, who was serving with an Alaska-based infantry regiment. The private was last seen walking away from his base near the border with Pakistan in an area known to be a Taliban stronghold.

Even before his name became public, two U.S. defense officials confirmed to The Associated Press that the man in that 28-minute video was the captured soldier. The video, in which Bergdahl said he was "scared I won't be able to go home," provided the first public glimpse of the missing American.

The Pentagon statement said Bergdahl's whereabouts became unknown on July 1 and his status was changed July 3 to missing-captured.

It wasn't clear who initially captured Bergdahl, but the U.S. command in Afghanistan said he was being held by the Taliban and condemned the video as a violation of international law.

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Sherry Johnston, Facing Felony Drug Charges, Shouldn't Have Left Alaska To Do Tyra, Prosecutor Says

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The Palmer District Attorney said if he had known just why Sherry Johnston needed to travel outside Alaska he would not have ...

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Indigenous Groups Hold Climate Summit in Alaska

Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 05.25.2011

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Alaskan Inuits, Australian aborigines and Pygmies from Cameroon have a message for a warming world: native traditions can be a potent weapon against c...

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Palin's AG Pick Defended KKK Statue, Mocked Offended Student

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.14.2009

Sarah Palin's choice for attorney general once wrote a column defending the statue of a KKK figure as an expression of free speech and mocked the psyc...

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Ted Stevens 2014? Former Senator Files For Candidacy

AP | MARK THIESSEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska has filed a statement of candidacy for the 2014 election, but an aide cautions agains...

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Drain, Baby Drain! 6 Million Gallons of Crude Oil at the Base of Erupting Volcano Could be Alaska's Next Exxon Valdez

Jeanne Devon (AKMuckraker) | Posted 05.25.2011

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On its 20th anniversary, we all relive the human and environmental tragedy that was the Exxon Valdez oil spill. But today, right now, Alaska faces down another threat.

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Mount Redoubt Eruptions Threaten Oil Pipeline

AP | MARY PEMBERTON | Posted 05.25.2011

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An Alaska volcano continued to rumble Tuesday amid new concerns that eruptions and mud flows will damage a nearby oil termin...

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