ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- In the Arctic village of Ambler, residents are paying 7.25 a gallon for home heating oil as the days darken and the chill of winter seeps into the dozens of homes, most poorly insulated, along the Kobuk River.
SCHOOLS: The National Education Association-Alaska and others are in court in Anchorage with a lawsuit charging that the state does not spend enough money on education.
Retired Army Col. Ann Wright is slated to speak today on the difficulties faced by military families opposed to the United States’s military leadership.Wright served a combined 29 years in active duty and the Army Reserve but resigned in 2003 just before the U.S. invasion of Iraq. A former career diplomat, Wright has challenged the civilian military leadership’s wartime decisions through
ANCHORAGE, Alaska In the Arctic village of Ambler, residents are paying 7.25 a gallon for home heating oil as the days darken and the chill of winter seeps into the dozens of homes, most poorly insulated, along the Kobuk River.
The Regulatory Commission of Alaska has approved a special contract for gas sales and transportation service between Enstar Natural Gas Co. and Fairbanks Natural Gas Co. LLC, effective Oct. 1, forestalling loss of gas for some 800 residential, commercial and institutional customers in Fairbanks. Th...
Scott Pfoff, president of both Aurora Gas and Aurora Power, has been left sitting on the sidelines as the Regulatory Commission of Alaska discusses the gas supply problems of Fairbanks Natural Gas, which uses liquefied natural gas from Cook Inlet to serve some 800 Fairbanks customers. That gas has,...
Two University of Alaska Fairbanks professors questioned the journalistic ethics of interior Alaska's largest newspaper, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, in a letter to colleagues dated October 3. The letter, written by John Creed and Susan Andrews, professors of journalism and general studies at UAF's Chukchi campus in Kotzebue, says that the News-Miner gave preferential treatment to state
We are appalled by today’s editorial. You’ve decided for us that the majority of borough residents are against the Bartos-Sattley resolution calling for Rumsfeld’s resignation.
For much of the last century, balloons could go far higher than airplanes. One ascent set a record that lasted into the jet age. Compared with the cutting-edge world of aerospace engineering, balloons are the essence of low tech.
