Record rainfall, mudslides and snowmelt are hammering Valdez, where breached levees Tuesday prompted the evacuation of some 200 residents, and others remained stranded after officials closed nearly 70 miles of the Richardson Highway.
Flooding has devastated Valdez Tuesday and the mayor has declared a state of emergency. Richardson Highway, the only highway into and out of Valdez, is closed. Two key bridges -- Keystone Canyon bridge and Lowe River bridge -- have both suffered substantial damage due to the incessant wind and rain. The American Red Cross of Alaska has set up an emergency shelter for flood victims at Valdez
The Southeast Alaska Conservation Council is hoping to convince the state's gubernatorial candidates to support improvement of the Alaska Marine Highway service. Citing a continuing deterioration of ferry service in Southeast Alaska, and a fall schedule that many consider marginal at best, the environmental organization is distributing a letter asking candidates to make the Alaska Marine Highway
, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Today is Monday, Oct. 16, the 289th day of 2006 with 76 to follow. The moon is waning. The morning stars are Venus and Saturn. The evening stars are Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Mars and Pluto.
The first week of October is totally THE best time to be in San Francisco. The days might start off foggy but by the afternoon it is sunny and warm, and in the evening you get the golden-est sunsets.
About 700 miles north of Vancouver, on a lonely snow-covered road that pushes on to the Yukon and Alaska, is a petrol station. There's not much traffic - just the occasional juggernaut swishing past, ferrying collossal tree trunks out of the wilderness and south to civilisation.
If you're planning to go to Canada, Mexico or the Caribbean by car, train, ferry or on a cruise ship soon, relax. It will be a while before you'll be required to have a passport to get back ...
Juneau-Douglas High football coach Bill Chalmers has a feeling Scotts Valley will fall in love with his hometown. ``I'm in traffic right now,'' he joked by cell while driving home from practice Monday. ``There's a car a half-mile ahead.''
