Anchorage's mayor and Alaska's governor signed a deal Thursday that says their two governments will jointly work to build $1.2 billion worth of Anchorage roads over the next 10 years.
From the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena to the Spokane Valley Mall to Spokane International Airport’s Concourse C expansion, residents here hardly can go anywhere without seeing the work of Garco Construction Inc., one of Spokane’s largest contractors.
By Allen, Stewart D; Gough, Amy The Hawaii-based longline fishery, which lands the vast majority of the Hawaii commercial catch of pelagic fish, is a limited entry fishery capped at 164 permits. Of the 120 active vessels, roughly 1/ 3 are owned by Vietnamese-Americans.
Candidates vying for the seats of Interior lawmakers voiced near-unanimous support Tuesday for the Alaska Gasline Port Authority’s “all-Alaska” pipeline proposal.
Posted on October 10, 2006 at 4:10 p.m. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The Alys Stephens Center presents singer, songwriter and actor Kris Kristofferson in a rare concert appearance at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11, at the Alys Stephens Center, 1200 10th Ave. S. The Birmingham News and NBC 13 sponsor the show.
Alaska State Troopers say a 41-year-old Willow man died Monday when his road roller tipped on a soft shoulder and pinned him. Donald T. Peterson was pronounced dead at the scene of the heavy equipment accident.
Democratic candidate for governor Tony Knowles on Monday put a natural gas pipeline at the center of a plan to improve education, ensure jobs and keep the state’s economy strong.
The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration says its new marine research building should be ready for occupancy in early January. The new 65-square-foot Ted Stevens Marine Research Institute at Lena Point will house a laboratory replacing aging facilities at Auke Bay.
I was born in 1920 in New Almeno, Kan. I grew up in Klamath Falls, Ore. In 1937, my father, Frank Schnabel, returned from Alaska, where he had sought work during the Great Depression. He told me and my brothers about an old burned-out sawmill boiler, engine and carriage that could be bought for $500 and thought that this could be an opportunity to lift ourselves out of the manual laboring class.
