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Published: April 19th, 2008 01:23 AM Last Modified: April 19th, 2008 01:37 AM The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a $4 million contract to Brice Inc. via Anchorage Daily News

“You have to be careful that you're not riding that rollercoaster of the value of the gold, because that's where it will bite you”

How Juneau assesses mine taxes is very different from how it's done in most other parts of the country, according to Donald Ross, a geologist and mine appraiser who consulted on mine appraisals for the city in ... via Juneau Empire

“Boy, when they get behind the wheel and hit the highways”

Nearly 20 teenagers were cited for underage drinking across the Matanuska-Susitna Borough last weekend, according to reports from Alaska State Troopers and Palmer and Wasilla police. via Anchorage Daily News

Searchers found a Selawik man Tuesday afternoon who had been missing for almost three days. via Anchorage Daily News

“I just still don't feel reassured that there's a real good plan for oil spills with ice chunks as big as this building”

Royal Dutch Shell has offered to scale back its oil drilling plans in the Beaufort Sea in order to win the lifting of an injunction against the activity, but the move is unlikely to placate opponents of the ... via Reuters RSS Reuters.com

“We don't pick berries around there. I don't hunt caribou there”

Published: January 21st, 2008 12:02 AM Last Modified: January 21st, 2008 01:32 AM Scientists say dust-borne pollution from the world's largest zinc mine, located in Northwest Alaska, is harming some of the ... via Anchorage Daily News

“They've violated the permit more than 4,000 times”

Residents of an island community in Northwest Alaska will take on the operators of the world's largest zinc mine beginning May 19 in U.S. District Court over thousands of alleged violations of federal ... via Alaska Journal of Commerce

“My mom always said, 'You have a dollar, and you have a fish. You can eat your fish and it will sustain you; and the dollar is just a dollar.' We have to make sure that we are able to balance the two”

The oil pipeline is drying up and the gas pipeline is more than a decade away from being operational. via KTVA Anchorage

Published: January 8th, 2008 01:03 AM Last Modified: January 8th, 2008 01:13 AM National Consumer Cooperative Bank moves The National Consumer Cooperative Bank has relocated its offices in Anchorage to 801 B ... via Anchorage Daily News

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