Despite lively opposition, Shell, with President Obama’s support, will start test wells in Alaska’s North, in a moment of major promise and considerable danger.

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The Energy Rush: Shell Arctic Ocean Drilling Stands to Open New Oil Frontier

State and federal authorities are investigating the apparent double homicide of a U.S. Coast Guard member and a civilian shot dead Thursday on an island off Alaska's coast.

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2 shot dead at Alaska Coast Guard base

Two Coast Guard members have been shot dead on an island off Alaska's coast, prompting the lockdown Thursday of their base and at least one nearby school.

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2 Coast Guard members killed in Alaska

The US Coast Guard has used cannon to fire on and sink a crewless Japanese ship that drifted to Alaska after the 2011 tsunami.

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VIDEO: US Coast Guard fires on ‘ghost ship’

Empty vessel headed for Alaska.

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Japanese Ghost Ship to Be Sunk

Baby mama is 20-year-old Alaskan teacher.

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Levi Johnston’s Girlfriend Pregnant

The closest that Americans get to a national presidential primary comes every four years when a large group of states hold their primaries and caucuses on the same day.

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The Caucus: Super Tuesday Preview

The company says it filed the suit against environmental groups in hopes of speeding up the judicial review that will come if and when the groups challenge its drilling plan.

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Shell Files Pre-emptive Lawsuit Over Alaska Drilling

The state of Alaska and the genre of reality docu-TV have almost animalistic mating urges. They just can’t stay away from one another, which is how we at home came to know too much about crab fishing, gold prospecting, grizzlies, snow machines, ice-road truckers, chartered plane pilots and the taste of the season’s first whale blubber. Add to that a certain out-of-work politician and the humdrum patrols of the state’s troopers, and it’s been a whole lot of defrosted drama. Yet very little of it has made for memorable watching. Read full article > >

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‘Bering Sea Gold’: Restoring reality TV’s lost glimmer

The state of Alaska and the genre of reality docu-TV have almost animalistic mating urges. They just can’t stay away from one another, which is how we at home came to know too much about crab fishing, gold prospecting, grizzlies, snow machines, ice-road truckers, chartered plane pilots and the taste of the season’s first whale blubber. Add to that a certain out-of-work politician and the humdrum patrols of the state’s troopers, and it’s been a whole lot of defrosted drama. Yet very little of it has made for memorable watching. Read full article > >

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‘Bering Sea Gold’: Restoring reality TV’s lost glimmer

A Russian tanker is slogging through sea ice behind a Coast Guard icebreaker, trying to bring 1.3 million gallons of emergency gasoline and diesel to remote Alaska.

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Icebreaker Slowly Carves Path for Tanker to Bring Emergency Fuel to Alaska

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Dozens of National Guard troops have arrived to help an Alaska fishing town dig out from massive snows that have collapsed roofs, trapped some people in homes, and triggered avalanches. Cordova is used to snow, but not like this season’s blanketing. The Guard reported more than 18 feet of snow has fallen in the past weeks, although the National Weather Service did not immediately have a measurement. Read full article > >

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National Guard helps Alaska fishing town dig out from massive snows

“I’ll just grit my teeth and bear whatever comes,” former Alaska Governor and Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin told Fox News’s Sean Hannity back in March about HBO’s upcoming flick detailing Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign, in which Palin will be played by Julianne Moore. Well, on Wednesday, the teeth-gritting began: HBO sent out a video tease that offered a very quick look at Moore’s chameleon-like performance in “Game Change,” based on book of same name, which the pay cable network will debut in March. Read full article > >

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HBO releases first trailer for ‘Game Change’; stars Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin, Ed Harris as John McCain (Video)

How exactly did Rep. Don Young and Douglas Brinkley get off on the wrong foot in the House Natural Resources Committee hearing Friday? Was it when the Alaska Republican called the historian’s testimony “garbage?” Or was it when Brinkley talked back? From that point, it was on — a verbal smackdown that startled the most jaded staffers. [ See the amazing C-SPAN video, below ] Read full article > >

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Douglas Brinkley and Rep. Don Young in committee hearing smackdown (video)

Residents of this small Alaskan town trace the success of the Tikigaq School’s basketball team to centuries of shared resolve and cooperation.

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Point Hope Journal: Alaska High School Basketball Team Thrives in Adversity