Responding to a possible outbreak of swine flu, a state medical team equipped with vaccine supplies for an entire village was en route by way of an Alaska Army National Guard Black Hawk helicopter this afternoon to Little Diomede, a small island community of about 128 people close to the [...]
Every now and then a deal pops up that really catches my attention. But Alaska Airlines announcements offering double "qualifying" miles really stands out.
Is talent inborn, or something we can develop with practice -- and if so, what kind of practice? Dan Coyle explores this terrain in his new book, The Talent Code.
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KOTZEBUE-As an eighth-grader, Meagan Lincoln struggled with a weighty problem: Should she leave Kotzebue, where she was born and raised, to attend Mount Edgecumbe High School, a state-run boarding school in Sitka located hundreds of miles away? [...] KOTZEBUE-As an eighth-grader, Meagan Lincoln struggled with a weighty problem: Should she leave Kotzebue, where she was born and raised, to attend Mount Edgecumbe High School, a state-run boarding school in Sitka located hundreds of miles away? [...] 
Right now, it's a buyer's market for travel goods and services. I do not expect that to change this summer. We're working hard to keep you advised of all the deals--and there are a bunch of them!
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Dancing Dude rocks out every Friday afternoon at the corner of Ingra and 15th [...]
In Daniel Bergner's "The Other Side of Desire", we enter a conversational wilderness where lust goes to die, a burial ground for unspoken passions.
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Today is one of those days. The sky is bluer than it's ever been. The sun is warm and the snow sparkles. Denali and the rest of the Alaska Range glimmer.
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April is a pivotal month for summertime travel planning. That is particularly true this year--since most travel companies witnessed a precipitous drop-of in reservations from December through March.
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Every now and then, and I do mean once in a while, there's a book that comes along that needs no introduction; no funny lines, or contemporaneous, odd observations to illuminate its eccentricities.
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The question was a simple one, but it held far deeper implications than I could have imagined when Tom Andrews posed it to me in the spring of 1974: "Would you like to work in Alaska this summer?"
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On the right hand, old defensive scars above / his knuckles. Missing pinky on the other. / A defiant twitching in his left eye.
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Howl of the wild: Depending on your point of view, gray wolves like this one are emblems of unspoiled wilderness or dangerous pests. [...] If I make it through this alive, I'll owe Jesus a cheeseburger.
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I admit, I've never purchased travel insurance. But in today's travel environment, there are more uncertainties, including our own Mt. Redoubt.
' [...]I admit, I've never purchased travel insurance. But in today's travel environment, there are more uncertainties, including our own Mt. Redoubt.
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POEM: I consider the buttons on my blouse: / each nacreous button glints / in the light at the top of the world - / cold, tiny, / not insignificant. [...] 
At six in the morning, Dad awoke to our black dog, Worf, sniffling and whining on the plywood floor of our cabin. It was springtime at my favorite place in the world: our camp along the Kobuk River in Northwest Arctic Alaska. I was ten, and a [...]
At six in the morning, Dad awoke to our black dog, Worf, sniffling and whining on the plywood floor of our cabin. It was springtime at my favorite place in the world: our camp along the Kobuk River in Northwest Arctic Alaska. I was ten, and a [...]
November, 1976. It's been 40 below in the Copper Basin for a week. My truck heater barely works. I'm supposed to meet Gordon in Chitina.
[...]November, 1976. It's been 40 below in the Copper Basin for a week. My truck heater barely works. I'm supposed to meet Gordon in Chitina.
' [...]The Doogan/Mudflats/anonymous blogging debate just won't end. And now a political action committee associated with Mudflats' husband has been dragged into the mix.
[...]The Doogan/Mudflats/anonymous blogging debate just won't end. And now a political action committee associated with Mudflats' husband has been dragged into the mix.
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Ha! And I was a happy man happy and a typing fool sitting in my window perch watching approaching darkness like the storm to end all storms...
[...]The federal and state governments sued BP on Tuesday over alleged pollution violations and lost revenue stemming from oil spills at Prudhoe Bay in 2006.
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Mt. Redoubt yesterday.
Mt. Redoubt enters new phase, emitting ash and steam but no eruptions.
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It's 1972. My girlfriend is seventeen. She's blue eyed and has blonde hair. I'm sixteen, autumn of my junior year. The top is down on her blue VW Bug.
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Ash cloud approaching Homer.
Mt. Redoubt continues to erupt, the last explosion is believed to have been recorded at 11:14 p.m. Sunday.
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Volcano Cam 2 [...] State Rep. Mike Doogan has revealed in his email newsletter the woman behind the hugely popular, Sarah Palin-bashing blog, Mudflats (themudflats.net). And she doesn't like it!
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Ash cloud approaching Homer.
Mt. Redoubt continues to erupt, the last explosion recorded at 8:40 a.m. Friday. Ash warnings are now in effect from the Kenai Peninsula to the Susitna Valley. 
LOCK AND LOAD: Gov. Palin has named former NRA vice president Wayne Anthony Ross Alaska's new Attorney General!
VIDEO: Watch WAR's former client douse war protestors.
[...]Bernie Tao, a professor of agricultural and biological engineering at Purdue University, takes his cold-weather biofuels for a test run at the Artic Circle.
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Then you will like "Flight of the Goose," Lesley Thomas' new novel, an epic story that unfolds in 1971 in an Inupiat Eskimo village.
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Most of Mt. Redoubt's volcanic rumblings have subsided--for now.
In her wake are dozens of canceled flights and missed connections.
For the most part, Alaskan travelers are a hardy lot. Here on the Last Frontier, there are many things aside from a volcanic eruption that can mess up a well-planned trip: fog, [...]
