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Murkowski getting 'huge outpouring' of support, aide says
UPDATED 5 p.m., Sept. 5, with comment from Joe MIller FAIRBANKS – Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has received significant support since narrowly losing to Joe Miller in the August ...
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Photo courtesy Yvette Morales/Valdez Fish Derbies George Levasseur of Valdez hooked a monster of a halibut on Friday aboard the Lisa Michelle. George’s catch weighed 363.9 pounds, breaking all previous halibut records for Valdez. The previous record-holding fish weighed 343.6 pounds and was caught in 2006. Valdez Fish Derby disqualifies record halibut, but honors angler for honesty
FAIRBANKS – The 363.9 pound halibut that George Levasseur of Valdez reeled in will go down in the record books as the largest sport-caught halibut in Port Valdez, but it won’t win th...
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GVEA plans to round up bills for charity
FAIRBANKS — In the coming months, Golden Valley Electric Association bills might start to look strangely rounded. Those to-the-cent figures are because starting as early as Nov. 1, GVEA’s Good¢e...
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Natives, others promote healing after insult on Anchorage radio station
ANCHORAGE , Alaska – Like the proverbial lemon that became lemonade, a racial insult aired on an Anchorage radio station has been embraced as a teaching tool, in an Alaska Native effort to ...
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Driller s helper Timothy Hobson works on an exploratory drill Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, on the Pebble Partnership prospect. / Sam Harrel/News-Miner
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Fight heats up over Alaska's Pebble Mine
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ILIAMNA, Alaska — When Phil St. George took a flight over an area north of Lake Iliamna in 1988, he noted that the lush, rocky terrain made it look like an enormous golf course. It reminded him of ...
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BP again talking about selling Alaska assets, London newspapers report by dermotcole
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BP is trying again to sell some or all of its Alaska operations, the Sunday Times and the Financial Times of London report, quoting unnamed banking and oil industry sources. The Sunday Times sai...
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That big clump of yellow north of Fairbanks in the rarefied air above Farmers Loop always intrigues me at this time of year. It is visible from both ends of  Farmers Loop and seems to cover...
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June Ulz, a great lady who was as engaging as she was insightful,  has died at 67 after a nearly  year-long battle with pancreatic cancer.   Ulz died at her home Thursday night,...
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Particulate matters: Wood stove initiative undermines local control
Editorial In addressing a subject that has drawn so much bitterness in recent years, let’s begin with a little levity: It’s not true — not true at all! — that the borough is trying to banish — y...
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Monroe Catholic s Roderick Bynum looks for running room during the third quarter of the prep high school football game between the Monroe Catholic Rams and the Nikiski Bulldogs Saturday afternoon, September 4, 2010 at the Kiwanis Field behind the Big Dipper. The Bulldogs won 51-12. Eric Engman/News-Miner Monroe football team gets walloped by Nikiski Bulldogs
FAIRBANKS — The Monroe Catholic Rams were already suffering on their offensive line before the Nikiski Bulldogs handed them a 51-12 loss in Saturday afternoon’s Greatland Conference high school ...
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Kayaks and fishing boats are lined up at a marina in Valdez harbor. Associated Press/Anadyr Adventures Wildlife and glaciers: a kayak adventure in Alaska
We’re standing in a field of rocks in a dense fog, surrounded by icebergs stranded at low tide. This is the terminal moraine of Alaska’s Columbia Glacier — the rocky debris that was left when the ...
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A student looks at a campus map during the first day of classes at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Thursday afternoon, September 2, 2010. Eric Engman/News-Miner
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