Healy News

An effort to restart a mothballed 50-megawatt clean coal power plant at Healy is still mired in lawsuits after 10 years.

Ron Alexander has long been intrigued with the true story of a young idealist who met his death in Alaska's unyielding wilderness in 1992.

Ron Alexander has long been intrigued with the true story of a young idealist who met his death in Alaska's unyielding wilderness in 1992.

"...Sean Penn's "Into the Wild" only cemented the mystique of Christopher McCandless for Alexander and others heading to Alaska this summer to retrace the steps of the young adventurer along the Stampede Road ...

It's known by the technical term "rolled-in rates." That's just a way of saying that, when a gas line is expanded, any increase or decrease in shipping rates is spread equally across all shippers.

Alaska's latest into-the-wild story got a happy ending. Two hikers missing since Friday in Denali National Park were flown to safety around 5 p.m. Wednesday, healthy and unharmed after their unplanned ...

A cell phone call interrupted Ellane Nelson on Wednesday morning as she listened to Denali National Park officials give a briefing on the search for her missing daughter.

Homer Electric Association has expressed willingness to turn over all or part of its rights attached to the Healy Clean Coal Plant to a Fairbanks-based utility in return for financial help covering the costs of ...

Published: June 8th, 2008 11:02 PM Last Modified: June 8th, 2008 11:15 PM WEDNESDAY * The Architecture/Engineering Marketing Association of Alaska features Daniel R. Fauske, CEO and executive director of the ...

Published: June 4th, 2008 12:52 AM Last Modified: June 4th, 2008 01:12 AM JUNEAU -- If the state Legislature awards TransCanada Corp.

Published: May 13th, 2008 11:12 PM Last Modified: May 13th, 2008 11:28 PM Just three years after the Port of Anchorage was built, the 1964 earthquake devastated Southcentral Alaska, leveling harbors in other ... via Anchorage Daily News

“We can look backwards and see that (public) agencies are at some peril when they go against the laws of economics.”

Published: May 4th, 2008 10:52 PM Last Modified: May 4th, 2008 11:10 PM The Port of Anchorage plays a vital role in Alaska commerce, and a responsible port expansion project should move forward. via Anchorage Daily News

“This is not a reflection on labor, but rather on bidding climate that PLAs may impose on local conditions”

A lawyer for a building contractors' association filed a lawsuit against the city of Juneau last week, saying the way it doles out construction contracts is unfair. via Juneau Empire

“Originally we planned to drop it in four pieces”

The historic Moody Railroad Tunnel is gone, blasted to smithereens Thursday by a carefully controlled explosion that left a pile of rubble on the mountainside above the Nenana River. via Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

“I'm puzzled by the way he's emerged as a hero, a kind of privileged-yet-strangely-dissatisfied-with-his-existence hero.”

Wilderness is the theme of Sherry Simpson's second essay collection "The Accidental Explorer." A resident of Alaska since childhood, Simpson has always lived alongside areas commonly defined as wild and ... via Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

“Agrium has determined that current economics are not sufficient to proceed with a gasification facility to supply coal-based syn-gas to our Kenai nitrogen facility. The mothball of the facility will be completed shortly”

Agrium Corp. said a combination of rising construction costs and a worsening U.S. economy were key factors in its decision not to proceed with an innovative coal gasification project the company hoped would ... via Homer News

“He killed his wife, then flew to Seattle and murdered Mr. Tarricone within a week's time”

The year was 1978, and Joseph Tarricone wanted Renee Ray Curtiss for his own. The 53-year-old Alaska man wooed the object of his desire -- 28 years his junior -- with gifts, attention, even tickets to Italy, ... via Anchorage Daily News

“I look forward to Kenai continuing to grow”

Agrium's Nikiski fertilizer plant shut down last year. The company has determined it will not be pursuing a coal gasification project. via Clarion Dispatch

“We're progressing from what was a test shipment of one vessel to now multiples of vessels over a period of a year”

Coal loads into train cars at the Usibelli Coal Mine in Healy in this 2007 photo. via Alaska Journal of Commerce

Nearly four decades after he straddled a Harley and headed out on the highway in "Easy Rider," Jack Nicholson is back in the saddle in the box-office hit "The Bucket List," a tale of two cancer patients who ... via Detroit Free Press