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Representative Eric Feige from the Alaska State Legislature presents a letter of commendation to the 'Alert's crew for their rescue tow of drill barge 'Kulluk'.

Move over boating DUIs, shopping cart DUIs are this year's coolest way for Alaskans to be intoxicated aboard a moving object.

Liz Gobeski soaks up the sun on the beach at Point Woronzof as a Polar Air Cargo jet comes in for a landing at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport as the temperature reached into the 80's in Anchorage, AK on Tuesday, June 18, 2013.

FBI agents plan a third day of digging Wednesday in suburban Detroit for the remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared 38 years ago.

In Alaska, houses are built to keep warm air in and cold air out, not the other way around.

Hampton Academy students felt like they were part of this year's Alaskan Iditarod, even though it was 4,500 miles from home.

Last week, Democratic senators from California, Oregon and Washington wrote to Obama to express concern about the potential effect of the Pebble Mine on their salmon fishing industries and demanding a 'valid, sound science based approach to ensuring that Bristol Bay salmon are safeguarded.'

Red shades over Alaska's interior indicate an unusually strong ridge of high pressure at high altitudes, which promotes sinking air and hot weather.

Alaska Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell formally jumped into the 2014 race for U.S. Senate, hoping to take on Democratic incumbent Mark Begich.

A Fairbanks senator plans to introduce legislation that would keep the names of those who sign initiatives and referenda private.

DENALI PARK, Alaska: On Friday, June 21 mountaineer Brian Okonek will speak about Belmore Browne and the 1912 Parker-Browne Expedition on Mt.

Each spring, it seems, the air of Alaska is filled with the buzz of mosquitoes and the whines of people declaring that this is undoubtedly the worst bug season they've ever experienced in their umpteen years in the far north.

It is time for the global maritime industry to push development of Trans Arctic Shipping Routes and port facilities along Alaska's northern coast.

The Department of Environmental Conservation said the gift is from the Hokkaido Development Engineering Center and members of the International Association of Cold Region Development Studies.

Environmental Conservation Commissioner Larry Hartig said in a release that the donation is a symbol of the "deep friendship" between the U.S. and Japan.

"Probably a Rockefeller Republican," he said when asked on CNBC Monday morning whether he was closer to identifying as that or as a Pelosi Democrat.

Pictures of the Aurora Borealis better known as the Northern Lights were the driving factor for us to visit Fairbanks, Alaska.

Seven professors from the University of Alaska Fairbanks are helping establish an engineering school at the new American University of Mongolia.

Poems by local writers Emily Wall and Ernestine Hayes have been selected for permanent placement in Totem Bight State Historical Park in Ketchikan as part of the Alaska Center for the Book's Poems in Place project.