Businesses and people around the country are digging into their pockets to help four Alaska villages whose tribal leaders rejected a heating-fuel gift from the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, a critic of President George Bush.
Dale and Charlene Hansen hauled their camper to this part of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge to get away from noise, and one of the lonely sounds in the campground one day last week was the welcome cry of a black bear cub.
Sgt. James Worster, 24, died of natural causes in Bagdad, Iraq on Sept. 18, 2006. He died in service to his country with the Army’s 10th Command Support Hospital where he was a medic. He had served in the Army since October 2002.
Mary Ann and Gordon Bartholomew of Anchorage recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. A dinner for immediate family members was at the home of Tom Bartholomew.
By Brandon Loomis, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Sep. 17--SOLDOTNA -- After two decades holding the line at 35-horsepower motorboats on the lower Kenai River, regulators propose throttling up.
HOMER, Alaska -- The sound of bark being stripped from a fallen tree echoed across the secluded cove in Peterson Bay. On the rocky beach, a black bear was hard at work, tearing pieces from a fallen tree and feasting on them. Framed by a backdrop of lush mountains, the animal was oblivious to the presence of its audience.
If over the next few days the rain deities smile on us with substantial precipitation - not flood-level stuff, mind you, but enough to color the rivers just a little and give those coho waiting in the bay a sniff of fresh, cool water - then by the middle of next week we should be up to our arm pits in silvers, which would bring a huge sigh of relief from the folks running the big Everett Coho
