Rampart News

If there's one thing that fries my bacon, it's these infernal greenie no-growthers that are trying to strangle every strand of progress here in Alaska.

Did you feel it? Report shaking and damage at your location. You can also view a map displaying accumulated data from your report and others. via USGS Earthquakes

“Johnny Wainwright is a bush pilot repo man struggling to make a living in Seward. All he wants to do is fly and get by, living a simple life in the Last Frontier. But when he reclaims stolen equipment from remote Johnstone Bay, the trouble begins.”

Smoking ban stirs protest "There is no conclusive evidence that smoking is harmful to anyone other than the smoker." -Jack Peterson, a tobacco industry consultant, arguing on behalf of 10 municipal labor unions ... via Anchorage Daily News

“This contract is important to us because it's in Fairbanks, where approximately half of our shareholders actually reside”

The signing of a $70 million sole-source federal contract awarded to a Rampart village corporation subsidiary has been delayed by at least a week. via Alaska Journal of Commerce

“Everything can be taught around gardening.”

A group of novice but committed gardeners in a Kuskokwim River village is showing how a vegetable patch can help teach while it puts food on the tables of local families. via Clarion Dispatch