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Alaska Airlines to stop offering prayer cards to passengers

For decades, Alaska Airlines handed out prayer cards to passengers along with their meals. For the past 6 years the practice has only been done for first class passengers, but it still has been a long-standing tradition ... continue

Alaskan Towns Close To Running Out Of Fuel As Ice Delays Oil Shipments

The harsh Alaskan winter is wreaking havoc on various towns that require shipments of oil to be received in order to operate. According to the Anchorage Daily News temperatures have dipped to 45-below, making passage through surrounding waters extremely ... continue

Alaska Airlines Begins Biofuel Flights Using Renewable Resources

Alaska Airlines on Wednesday began testing bio-fuel powered flights, marking the start to an expensive trial meant to improve the airlines environmental footprint. Before taking off on their maiden voyages to Washington DC and Portland customers were handed ... continue

Nome, Alaska Feels the Brunt of Massive Bering Sea Storms

Nome seems to have received the biggest battering from the Bering Sea mega-storm that pummeled Western Alaska on Wednesday. The Alaskan city, population 3,600, was the focus point of the storm, which forced authorities to issue a winter ... continue

Bear Goes Food Shopping in Alaska Grocery [Video]

A bear cub was discovered wondering among the veggies at Tatsuda's IGA, a grocery store, in Ketchikan, Alaska. The small bear was caught on video going through broccoli, carrots, onions and other produce right in front of ... continue

Vanessa Hudgens set to play a role in upcoming serial killer movie

Vanessa Hudgens, best known for her role in the High School Musical films, is reported to be playing a role in an upcoming serial killer thriller alongside Nicolas Cage, called Frozen Ground. According to a report by Deadline, ... continue

Alaska volcano ‘Mount Cleveland’ might erupt soon, officials warn

On August 30, Alaska's Cleveland Volcano's lava dome appeared to have peaked at 262 feet, prompting officials to believe that it would stop growing. According to latest data, however, that doesn't appear to be the case. According to ... continue

Alaska Earthquake Rocks Aleutian Islands, Prompts Brief Tsunami Warning

A powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck near Alaska's Aleutian Islands early Friday, prompting a tsunami alert that was subsequently canceled. Although the quake was felt by many of the residents in the very remote area of Atka - a ... continue

Russia Gives OK For Underwater Tunnel Connecting Country To Alaska

We've all heard the "bridge to Hawaii" jokes that leave some people believing they can actually drive to the island state, well now a connection is being made, but it's from Alaska to Russia. Russian officials this ... continue

Two Planes Collide In Alaska, 4 People Found Dead

Two single-engine planes crashed into each other on Saturday killing four people aboard one of the aircraft. The second plane, a Cessna 206 which only carried it's pilot was able to make it's way back to Anchorage ... continue

Dinosaur Skeleton Found In Alaska [Thalattosaur]

This week a 200 million year old fossil skeleton belonging to a Thalattosaur was discovered in Alaska along the shore of a low tide near Tongass National Forest. According to International Business Times, scientist determined that the skeleton ... continue

TSA Listens to Concerns at Alaska Roundtable

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) participated in a roundtable discussion yesterday in Alaska addressing resident concerns that standard pre-flight screening procedures were "too invasive." TSA general manager for operations Scott Johnson and Democratic Senator Mark Begich sat down ... continue

Former Senator Stevens, former NASA chief O’Keefe on downed plane in Alaska

Former Alaska Senator Ted "series of tubes" Stevens and former NASA chief Sean O'Keefe are believed to have been two of the nine people aboard a plane that crashed in Alaska shortly before 9pm last night. The FAA ... continue

Alaska – disappearing at 45 feet per year

While the big climate conference in Copenhagen is turning out to more of a train wreak as each day goes by another piece of Alaska disappears in the the fridge ocean water. In what could be considered ... continue

The Blob Lives!

The last time anyone really thought about The Blob was when Steve McQueen starred in the hokey sci-fi slash horror movie. Little did we know though that lurking in the depths of our oceans ... continue

81 Year Old Drug Dealer Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison

An 81 year old man received a 5 year prison sentence in Fairbanks Alaska on Friday for selling OxyContin, a powerful prescription pain reliever. Rayfield Dupree, who will turn 82 next month, was originally charged with five felony ... continue

Alaska’s Mount Redoubt erupts

Mount Redoubt, a volcano 100 miles from Anchorage, Alaska has blown its top and is erupting, nearly two months after experts predicted it would. The eruption started at 11:38 p.m. Sunday local time but was obscured by darkness ... continue

Aircraft missing in Alaska, search underway

A commercial aircraft has been reported missing in Alaska. Alaska State Troopers have begun searching for the aircraft that disappeared from radar approximately 7.5 miles (12km) from Nome, in the North West of the State at 6:30pm local ... continue

Live coverage of a possible volcano explosion: Mount Redoubt Webcams

With Alaska's Mount Redoubt predicted to blow its top by scientists, the web is offering a variety of different views of the mountain, so you can watch the event if and when it happens. There are a number ... continue

Alaska Volcano Eruption: Mount Redoubt set to blow

Mount Redoubt, an active volcano 100 miles (180kms) southwest of Anchorage, Alaska is rumbling and simmering, with geologists warning an eruption is imminent. Mount Redoubt has previously erupted in 1902, 1966 and 1989. The eruption in 1989 spewed ... continue

Snowzilla Returns

Fresh from reports that Alaska's favorite giant snowman Snowzilla had been killed off by the local council, a mystery fan has decided to take matters into his own hands an build Snozilla anyway! Snowzilla started in 2005 when ... continue

Anchorage Officials kill Snowzilla

Snowzilla, the giant Alaskan snowman who had become a famous annual attraction in Anchorage is no more, after city officials decided to ban his building this year. Snowzilla started in 2005 when Anchorage local Billy Powers decided he ... continue