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This editorial appeared in the Anchorage Daily News: It's been a bitter business for the 32,000 or so plaintiffs in the Exxon Valdez case.

JOBS: Companies responsible for 21 percent of private-sector payroll. Published: July 1st, 2008 12:14 AM Last Modified: July 1st, 2008 02:07 AM The oil industry wants to remind us how big it is in Alaska.

This is the place to talk about Alaska politics -- state, local, national. Public life in the Last Frontier may never have been more interesting than right now -- the broad and still-evolving corruption ...

Ever since the spill occurred fishermen have said it is not enough. There has always been a strong sentiment that Exxon should be punished.

The state has hired Emerald/ABS to conduct a comprehensive risk assessment of oil and gas infrastructure across Alaska, the Department of Environmental Conservation announced on June 24.

Public officials in Alaska are reacting strongly to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Wednesday to slash the $2.5 billion damage award to Alaska fishermen to $508 million, nearly 20 years after the Exxon Valdez ...

Justice David Souter wrote for the court that punitive damages may not exceed what the company already paid to compensate victims for economic losses, about $500-million compensation.

VALDEZ: Supreme Court ruling could even be delayed until next year. Published: June 20th, 2008 12:57 AM Last Modified: June 20th, 2008 01:18 AM Fishermen are anticipating a decision Monday that they've been ...

Folksinger John McCutcheon loves Alaska. The Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist has traveled and performed throughout the state countless times and keeps coming back.

State lawmakers may be leaning toward support for approving a contract with TransCanada Alaska Company to build a gas pipeline from the North Slope into Canada to the Lower 48, Sen.

NATIVE CORPORATION: Reported 2007 revenues were $1.77 billion. Published: June 18th, 2008 12:19 AM Last Modified: June 18th, 2008 12:42 AM Arctic Slope Regional Corp.

While the public was divided on whether the Legislature should approve TransCanada's gas pipeline application under the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act, it stood unanimous that natural gas needs to reach Alaskans ...

Port authority board member Whitaker says he now supports TransCanada's proposal; expert says LNG project not competitive The Associated Press Jim Whitaker, mayor of the Fairbanks North Star Borough and a board ...

Gov. Sarah Palin began campaigning for office two years ago as a supporter of bringing Alaska's vast natural gas reserves to market as liquefied natural gas exported through Valdez, popularly known as the ...

View as a single page 5:00AM Saturday June 07, 2008 My husband and I have hired an RV in Alaska for 10 days, starting in Anchorage in late August.

OK, listen up. Are you baffled by this whole natural gas pipeline thing? Are you wondering why state legislators and Gov.

From the Bering Land Bridge to the oil pipeline, state has a storied past Alaska.com Although Alaska's statehood is relatively brief, the state's history is long and colorful.

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

ERIK HILL / Daily News archive 1989 The Exxon Valdez was towed away from Bligh Reef on April 5, 1989.

Charges under the Motor Vehicles Act are pending against a 42-year-old Skagway resident after a 62-year-old motorcyclist was killed on the Alaska Highway in western Yukon Tuesday evening.