Prudhoe Bay News

What would Alaska look like if we had no oil and gas industry? That's the question UAA economist Scott Goldsmith posed to the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce Monday.

Longtime Seward resident, Frank Dieckgraeff, 75, died June 20, 2009 at Providence Hospital in Anchorage, surrounded by family.

Production at the Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska - the nation's largest - has fallen 30 percent this month amid pipeline maintenance.

The Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority has forged an agreement with a Prudhoe Bay producing company to purchase limited amounts of propane for possible resale to a private distributor who could truck the fuel to Fairbanks for use in regional markets.

I'm home again after a nine-day road trip from Anchorage, Alaska, to Prudhoe Bay on the shore of the Arctic Ocean.

Has the American society dumbed down, or is our dumbness just more pronounced with an increase in population? Is it a ratio thing? And with broader venues of communication, are we more exposed to that dumbness? A recent national commentary blasted the media for telling us too much about which movie stars are divorcing and too little about politics, ...

AMERICA 'S SCARIEST DRIVES: DALTON HIGHWAY : "There are several kinds of fear when it comes to road trips," Joe Yogerst begins his article.

Commissioner Tom Irwin announced today that Williams Alaska Petroleum, Inc. and the State of Alaska have reached an agreement over payments for royalty oil purchased by WAPI.

At age 40, Karen Hawes felt it was time to launch a trashy new lifestyle. And what better place to start, she figured, than her birth state of Alaska.

Alaska Airlines is offering 25 percent off flights to Mexico this summer and fall.

Summer maintenance work is already under way for Alaska's oil and gas industry, with Gathering Center 2 down for a month-long turnaround starting June 6. The down time for the projects at Prudhoe Bay, of which GC2 is just the first, includes a slowdown, a flat period for mechanical work and the.... [additional news subjects in this story] ...

Volvo Construction Equipment Rents, Inc. , has announced the opening of a new Volvo Rents equipment rental center in North Pole, Alaska.

Alaska's Haul Road is the basis for the new season of the History Channel's "Ice Road Truckers." And drivers from Alaska-based Carlile Transportation Inc.

The energy proposal released by congressional Republicans the other day doesn't have a snowball's chance of passage.

On minute Zero, John Ryan was in Prudhoe Bay, on the North Shore of Alaska. 5,191 minutes later, Ryan was in Key West, Florida, having traversed the entire North American Continent, the long way, on his 2005 Yamaha FJR 1300, outfitted with Metzler Z6 Interact sport-touring tires.

Alaskan Trish Jurica isn't picking a winner in the battle between TransCanada Corp.

Bitter temperatures, ice-covered roads and hazardous driving conditions help make the History Channela s a oeIce Road Truckersa a captivating program.

Alaska's Haul Road is the basis for the new season of the History Channel's "Ice Road Truckers." And drivers from Alaska-based Carlile Transportation Inc.

Getting lost in Mongolia, contracting malaria in the Congo and navigating crater-size potholes in China were some of the more harrowing moments for members of The World By Road Expedition led by Steven Shoppman and Stephen Bouey.

You won't see anything? If "anything" means avoiding guided tours of TV factories, then that statement is correct.