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FAIRBANKS -- An Idaho general contractor dumped by Fred Meyer Inc. for a store renovation project in Fairbanks has sued the retailer, claiming breach of contract.

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HEALY — When Jimmy Tohill was in junior high school, he would fall in love with a pretty girl and write her a poem. It was only natural when he came north and fell in love with Alaska that he conti... ...

FAIRBANKS — Alaska has scored a win in the ongoing fight against the Air Force's plan to relocate Eielson Air Force Base's F-16 squadron — a move some see as an attempt to close the base — when U.S... ...

FAIRBANKS — The state's Department of Education is undergoing a review of its capital projects priority list ranking system. The review and probable update of the system will help clear up ambiguit... ...

10 YEARS AGO May 21, 2002 — Running Club North and the Pump House Restaurant are sponsoring the Two Way Torture Test on Saturday. The road race features teams of two runners each heading in opposit... ...

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Seismic activity at Iliamna Volcano has been slightly above background over the past 24 hours. Nothing unusual was observed in mostly clear web camera and satellite images. AVO has received no reports of unusual activity at the volcano. The current level of activity at Iliamna does not indicate an...

Nothing unusual was observed in satellite data of Cleveland Volcano over the past 24 hours. No ash emissions or other outward signs of unrest were detected or reported. While Cleveland Volcano is active, sudden ash-producing explosions may occur at any time. Ash clouds associated with explosive ...

The explosive growth of federal spending in Alaska has flattened, according to a new analysis, but the state's per-capita haul is still more than 40 percent above the national average…

Amber Stull, Alaska's newest Gold Nugget Triathlon champion, came from behind in the final mile Sunday to deny Shannon Donley a record ninth victory in the nation's longest-running all-female triathlon.

Eagle River's Corey Cogdell is going back to the Olympics. A bronze medalist in 2008, Cogdell clinched the country's only berth in women's trapshooting by dominating Sunday's final day of…

Over four consecutive Saturdays, April 14-May 6, I attended four concerts in which new music received its world premiere. The concerts are individually critiqued at adn.com/artsnob , but here's a…

East and Bartlett high schools have been named as recipients of Grammy Signature Schools Enterprise Awards. The two Anchorage schools are among 18 selected from around the nation this year.

May brings tens of thousands of birds to town -- geese, cranes, swans, sandpipers and harriers, to name just a few of the commonly spotted species. The Alaska Zoo will…

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10 YEARS AGO May 20, 2002 — Old buildings may not talk, but they can leave clues. Sunday afternoon a section of the New York Times, dated Sept. 15, 1929, was found sticking out of a log round in th... ...

FAIRBANKS — The students bent over their final exams in concentration, scattered around the classroom in the few remaining desks. The other desks were stacked along the wall next to the piles of un... ...

FAIRBANKS — Under the warm morning sun Saturday, people released their grips on dozens of red and white balloons. As they floated higher and higher, tails whipping in the breeze, more than a few te... ...

FAIRBANKS — A general contractor that was fired from a disastrous remodeling project at the West Fairbanks Fred Meyer store has sued the company for more than $5 million, claiming it was victimized... ...

FAIRBANKS — An up and coming crop of future pilots took to the air under sunny blue skies Saturday during Fairbanks Aviation Day at Fairbanks International Airport. An enthusiastic Ryan Schmidt, 12... ...

Corey Cogdell of Eagle River, the 2008 bronze medalist in women's trapshoot, turned in her second straight day of superior shooting to claim a five-shot lead going into Sunday's final…

The Bartlett Golden Bears dressed for success Saturday at the state track and field championships in Fairbanks. On the backs of their flashy, fluorescent yellow sweatshirts was a list of…

As dominant as the Dimond Lynx have been during the Cook Inlet Conference boys soccer season, it isn't often goalie Arturo Oberto is called upon to make clutch saves in…

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At times when the Cook Inlet Conference girls championship soccer game stretched to penalty kicks Saturday, Dimond High goalkeeper Katelyn Sweeney stood on her line and stretched her arms horizontally,

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A scientist wearing plastic boots and crampons knelt on Gulkana Glacier and pointed at the king of beasts, a snow flea. "He is the top of the food chain on…

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The value of Alaska fishing permits has seesawed over the past year. Cook Inlet prices have gone up, while Bristol Bay prices have fallen.

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The winter schedule for the Alaska Marine Highway System for ferry travel for this coming fall, winter and spring has been published and travelers are [...]...

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Standard registration rates for the Mayor's Marathon will come to a close Monday, and late registration rates will begin Tuesday.

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Tim Berntson and Jill Valerius both used blazing bike rides to claim wins Saturday in the Eklutna Challenge, which combines a three-mile run with a 15-mile bike at Eklutna Lake.

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The Region III soccer titles were decided in two close matches at Skyview High on Saturday.

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In a repeat performance of last year, Christopher Ashland won the Alaska Job Corps 5-K on Saturday. The 22-year-old from Big Lake finished the five-kilometer run in 18 minutes, 12…

South put up a combined 20 runs in two wins Saturday, defeating Soldotna 11-2 and 9-6 in a nonconference softball doubleheader at Albrecht Fields.

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By virtue of its 5-1 win over Chugiak and Dimond's 7-5 win over South at Mulcahy Stadium, undefeated Service clinched the Cook Inlet Conference baseball title Saturday.

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Three decades ago, the Gold Nugget Triathlon got its start at Tryon and Marianne Wieland's Sand Lake home. "The transition area was our driveway," recalled Jennifer, one of the Wieland…

For the first time in a dozen years, no one is quite sure where the Alaska Republican Party is headed. As a new chairman makes plans to take over, the…

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Hilcorp Alaska has obtained interim permission to resume storing oil at the Drift River tank farm on the west side of Cook Inlet. A 2009 eruption of nearby Redoubt Volcano…

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Seismic activity at Iliamna Volcano has been slightly above background over the past 24 hours. Nothing unusual was observed in mostly clear web camera and satellite images. AVO has received no reports of unusual activity at the volcano. The current level of activity at Iliamna does not indicate an...

Nothing unusual was observed in satellite data of Cleveland Volcano over the past 24 hours. No ash emissions or other outward signs of unrest were detected or reported. While Cleveland Volcano is active, sudden ash-producing explosions may occur at any time. Ash clouds associated with explosive ...

FAIRBANKS — A Fairbanks man who was injured when he rolled a pickup truck last summer at Harding Lake has now been indicted on felony assault charges. A Fairbanks grand jury handed up an indictment... ...

FAIRBANKS — Throughout her long, active life Helen Snedden, 96, never drew attention to herself. Described by friends as a “brilliant” but very private person, she was content to walk in the shadow... ...

FAIRBANKS — A man riding a bicycle early Thursday morning behind the Fairbanks police station was beaten up and had his bicycle stolen by a man, a woman and a teenage boy, according to Fairbanks po... ...

FAIRBANKS — A team of six soldiers from the Northern Warfare Training Center at Fort Wainwright began climbing Mount McKinley Thursday. The group is broken into two, three-man teams led by Maj. Gar... ...

FAIRBANKS — The Denali Highway is open. The 135-mile road connecting the Parks and Richardson highways opened for the season Tuesday, according to Meadow Bailey, public information officer for the ... ...

After an Superior Court ruling in its favor last fall, the Department of Natural Resources is terminating the Arctic Fortitude oil exploration unit on the North Slope.

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South and Service each clinched spots in the state baseball tournament by virtue of wins Friday in the Cook Inlet Conference tournament.

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The Lynx have long held to a tradition of giving themselves terrifically bad haircuts for the conference and state tournaments as a sort of team-bonding deal. Usually, the seniors wield…

The opening 30 minutes of South's 3-0 semifinal victory Friday over Eagle River in the girls Cook Inlet Conference tournament wasn't as much a soccer match for Eagle River as…

She hasn't made it to London yet, but trapshooter Corey Cogdell of Eagle River got one step closer to the Summer Olympics by surging into the lead Friday at the…

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From 9-year-old Kiah Widener to 79-year-old Sharon Kelly, girls and women of all ages, shapes and abilities will seize control of a big chunk of the city Sunday for the…

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Alisha Allen of Lathrop soared to new lengths in the triple jump, Service's Max Romey and Colony's Audrey Michaelson registered the fastest times of the season in the 3,200 meters…

/images/stories/mp3/120518.murkowski_on_frankenfish.mp3 Jay Barrett/KMXT (mailto:thejaybob@kmxt.org) Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski filed an amendment on the Senate floor Thursday that would bar the Food and Drug Administration from approving genetically-modified salmon for human ...

North Slope oil: $107.73 per barrel, down $1.08…

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City of Sand Point P.O. Box 249 Sand Point, AK 99661 Special Meeting A Special Meeting will be held May 22nd, 2012, at 12:00 pm in the City Council Chambers regarding the following: Ordinance 2012-02: FY13 Budget & Resolution 12-02: Disposal of Real Property-City Trailer....

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Draft watershed assessment now out for 60 days of public comment, peer review, with final document anticipated before year's end...

Seismic activity at Iliamna Volcano has been slightly above background throughout the past week. Nothing unusual was observed in mostly clear web camera and satellite images during the past week. AVO has received no reports of unusual activity at the volcano. The current level of activity at Iliam...

Nothing unusual was observed in satellite data of Cleveland Volcano over the past week. No ash emissions or other outward signs of unrest were detected or reported during the week. While Cleveland Volcano is active, sudden ash-producing explosions may occur at any time. Ash clouds associated wit...

KOTZEBUE — The University of Alaska's Chukchi College recognized graduates, outstanding students, and community members at commencement exercises on May 8 in Kotzebue...

We traveled six hours that evening. I really didn't want to travel at night on this leg of the trip as I am brand new to the country. I did make sure that I was headed down river and doubled checked a couple of times....

The North Slope Borough School District Iñupiaq Education department in cooperation with Iḷisaġvik's Cooperative Extension has been holding events to encourage and support families in working together to learn more Inupiaq....

The Friends of Tuzzy Library partnered with Barrow's Community Theater Group to present the wonderful Sam Spud, Private Eye and the Case of the Malted Falcon: A Mystery Dinner on April 20 and 21, 2012 at Tuzzy Consortium Library....

This week, Governor Sean Parnell announced his vetoes, which totaled some $67 million, and fiscal conservatives across the state likely cheered this move of frugality in an otherwise generous legislative session....

This is a busy time of year for Alaskans, and I am no exception. Despite 24 hours of daylight each day, the weeks come and go very quickly. So this week, I am trying to take care of writing my column early as I know how hard it is to do at the last minute when there are so many other spring and su...

A Noorvik man is facing five assault charges and a disorderly conduct charge after attacking family members and several of the family dogs on May 6....

A Kiana man was arrested for allegedly breaking into the Shungnak Native Store last Thursday....

A Barrow man is facing attempted murder charges after he discharged his firearm into an occupied vehicle near Egasak Street in Barrow on Sunday....

Now that Alaskans have lodged themselves firmly on the other side of a long and harsh winter, springtime coastal activities are turning up a rising amount of marine debris linked to the March 2011 tsunami in Japan....

Now that Alaskans have lodged themselves firmly on the other side of a long and harsh winter, springtime coastal activities are turning up a rising amount of marine debris linked to the March 2011 tsunami in Japan....

He was one of the greatest high school wrestlers in Alaska history, so it made sense that Jared Miller of Dillingham got college offers from some of the country's top teams....

At next week's NCAA Track and Field Championships, Hallidie Wilt of Unalaska will run for herself. The conference meet, however, was all about the team....

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The city of Unalaska will pay a $340,000 fine and undertake a major upgrade of its municipal sewage treatment plant under a settlement of a Clean Water Act enforcement action filed against the city and the state of Alaska by the Department of Justice on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency,...

With oil exploration likely to start this summer in the Arctic Ocean, Unalaska could become a major support port, like coastal Louisiana communities on the Gulf of Mexico....

The family and friends of Dillingham's Andrea Ruby knows there's no court judgment or sentence that can bring back the person they love....

An ammonia leak aboard the fishing vessel Alaska Juris, which led to the evacuation of three crewmembers last Thursday, is still under investigation by the Coast Guard. Coast Guard personnel received report that the three men were suffering from ammonia exposure on board the vessel, approximately 80...

Rezoning the southern tip of Captains Bay from subsistence tidelands to developable tidelands in order to accommodate the expected oil boom has a lot of political support. But not everybody agrees, fearing harm to the bay's salmon, clams and other sea life....

The Pebble Partnership announced Tuesday that its budget for the 2012 summer season was $107 million to continue work studying and analyzing what is called a world class deposit of copper, gold and molybdenum....

Now that Alaskans have lodged themselves firmly on the other side of a long and harsh winter, springtime coastal activities are turning up a rising amount of marine debris linked to the March 2011 tsunami in Japan....

He was one of the greatest high school wrestlers in Alaska history, so it made sense that Jared Miller of Dillingham got college offers from some of the country's top teams....

At next week's NCAA Track and Field Championships, Hallidie Wilt of Unalaska will run for herself. The conference meet, however, was all about the team....

As told by Unalaska Public Safety...

The city of Unalaska will pay a $340,000 fine and undertake a major upgrade of its municipal sewage treatment plant under a settlement of a Clean Water Act enforcement action filed against the city and the state of Alaska by the Department of Justice on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency,...

With oil exploration likely to start this summer in the Arctic Ocean, Unalaska could become a major support port, like coastal Louisiana communities on the Gulf of Mexico....

The family and friends of Dillingham's Andrea Ruby knows there's no court judgment or sentence that can bring back the person they love....

An ammonia leak aboard the fishing vessel Alaska Juris, which led to the evacuation of three crewmembers last Thursday, is still under investigation by the Coast Guard. Coast Guard personnel received report that the three men were suffering from ammonia exposure on board the vessel, approximately 80...

Rezoning the southern tip of Captains Bay from subsistence tidelands to developable tidelands in order to accommodate the expected oil boom has a lot of political support. But not everybody agrees, fearing harm to the bay's salmon, clams and other sea life....

The Pebble Partnership announced Tuesday that its budget for the 2012 summer season was $107 million to continue work studying and analyzing what is called a world class deposit of copper, gold and molybdenum....

Weston Solutions said May 11 that when it sought an office location in Dickinson, N.D., an area of rapid growth, it found the downside of that growth- a severe housing shortage. But for Weston, a firm predicated on solving complex challenges, it considered an innovative solution few firms might cons...

Totem Equipment and Supply said May 9 that it announces the appointment of Four Seasons Equipment of North Dakota LLC as the exclusive dealer for the Totem line of heaters. Four Seasons will stock the well known indirect fired self-contained 1 million Btu Totem 10 at their facility in Williston. In....

A sharp jump in production helped Oasis Petroleum Inc. turn a profit in the first quarter. The Houston independent reported net income of $16.4 million from the first quarter, up from a loss of $6.8 million year over year and a loss of $13.4 million quarter over quarter. Oasis produced 17,633 barrel...

Record oil production and revenues helped Voyager Oil and Gas Inc. sharply decrease its losses year over year, but the company still failed to turn a profit in the first quarter. The Billings, Mont.-based independent reported a net loss of $256,370 during the first quarter, down from a net loss of $...

When Kodiak Oil and Gas Corp. sailed into the Williston basin of North Dakota and Montana in 2004, it was a small independent hoping to cash in on the rich promise of the region. During the ensuing eight years, the company has grown rapidly from a pure explorer of the Bakken with a $6 million annual...

By May 12, restaurants, rental cars and hotels were already booked and Bismarck, N.D.'s airport was expecting an impressive fleet of oil company-owned business jets to crowd the tarmac for the three-day North Dakota oil conference and expo starting May 22. Officials believe the Williston Basin ...

The Washington Times has an opinion piece in its May 16 edition from Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and David Vitter, R-Louisiana, calling on U.S. President Obama to seize a rare second chance to do the right thing and approve TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline project. Check it out: http://b...

A major senior management change is under way at big Bakken producer Continental Resources. Effective June 4, Jeff Hume, the company's president and chief operating officer, will assume the role of vice chairman of strategic growth initiatives; in turn, Rick Bott will replace Hume as president ...

Strong growth propelled Northern Oil and Gas Inc. (NYSE/AMEX: NOG) to set new records in production, oil and gas sales and adjusted operating earnings during the first three months of 2012, reflecting the non-operator's success in increasing its net acreage and more than doubling its net produc...

Folks came to the Black Hills Bakken Conference in Spearfish, S.D., earlier in May, hoping that the experts would confirm widespread speculation that their native South Dakota was on the cusp of an oil boom equal to the one currently under way in neighboring North Dakota. Answers provided by geolog...

First crude has entered the reversed Seaway pipeline, relieving 150,000 barrels per day of the squeeze at Cushing, Okla., but as fast as one problem gets help another surfaces. The Enbridge-Enterprise Products Partners joint venture covers 500 miles to Freeport, Texas. It is designed to carry more....

While the North Dakota oil boom has generated a fresh crop of wealthy landowners, those newly minted millionaires don't fit the stereotype of a 'fat cat,' according to a recent story in Investment News. In fact, they are more likely to remain low-key, with an eye toward helping their ...

Calgary-based Crescent Point Energy, a trailblazer in the use of horizontal drilling and multistage fracturing to commercialize Saskatchewan's tight-oil plays, is working on twin-pronged objectives - continuing additions to its portfolio of resource plays through acquisitions and weighing expan...

Petroplex International, a Louisiana-based developer of bulk liquid storage terminals, and an associated investment consortium, said it has raised $600 million for a multi-modal bulk liquid terminal in St. James Parish in Baton Rouge. The planned initial capacity is targeted at 4-6 million barrels,....

In April, Magnum Hunter Resources Corp. (NYSE: MHR) announced a $311 million deal to grab more working interest across its Bakken and Three Forks properties in the Williston basin. Although small, Magnum Hunter operates in three of the most economic liquids-rich unconventional regions in North Ameri...

A considerable majority of the public lands and waters leased for oil and gas development remain idle, according to a report from the U.S. Department of the Interior. The idle acreage includes onshore leases in the area around the Williston basin. President Obama called on federal land managers in M...

A recent sale of oil and gas leases on federal lands in Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota brought in $3.9 million in bonus bids from 12 winning bidders. The average bonus bid per acre was $74.80. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management said May 9 that 151 parcels offered in the three states receive...

The midstream and downstream challenges - roads, transportation and refineries - that face the big Bakken, Eagle Ford, Permian and Niobrara plays preoccupied many speakers at recent conferences in Washington, D.C., and Denver. And it started with gaining access to the prolific plays in North Dakota....

Canadian junior EandP Bowood Energy has made a move towards consolidation of assets in southern Alberta's emerging Bakken play. It has a deal to acquire assets in the southern Alberta region from Legacy Oil + Gas, including the sales of 68,581 net acres of Legacy's undeveloped land for 2 m...

In Continental Resources May 3 first quarter earnings conference call, company president and COO Jeff Hume noted there had been a lot of interest in 'differentials on pipe barrels delivered to Clearbrook, Minnesota and Guernsey, Wyoming markets' and how it was impacting Continental's ...

In a May 3 conference call following the release of first quarter earnings, Continental Resources executives told investors they were planning seven more Three Forks second-bench wells, along with their first third-bench well - all in 2012 and early 2013. 'Our first third-bench well will be dri...

Currently, almost no Bakken production contains oil extracted directly from the organic-rich shale members of the Bakken petroleum system. Rather it comes from tight, conventional reservoirs close to the shale/source rock zones; the largest producer being a dolomitic sandstone reservoir called the M...

Enbridge has filed a proposal with Michigan regulators to spend $1.3 billion doubling capacity of its Line 6B to 500,000 barrels per day in response to demand from refiners for cheap Canadian crude from the Bakken and oil sands plays. The application to the Michigan Public Service Commission said th...

North Dakota has passed Alaska to become the second-leading oil-producing state in the U.S., trailing only Texas, state officials said May 15. North Dakota oil drillers pumped 17.8 million barrels in March, with a daily average of 575,490 barrels, said Assistant North Dakota Oil and Gas Division Dir...

Bakken producers on both sides of the United States-Canada border can increasingly see an answer to their hopes of accessing new North American markets by pipeline. Canadian pipeline companies Enbridge and TransCanada are in full flight, seeking commercial backing and regulatory approval to hasten t...

South Dakota plans to conduct a study to identify suitable sand resources within the state that could be tapped by the private sector to help meet growing demand for sand in hydraulic fracturing markets, primarily in neighboring North Dakota, Petroleum News Bakken has learned. 'It's a stud...

Peter Dea brought in Norway's largest oil company, Statoil ASA (STL), to help Cirque Resources LP evaluate and develop its Heath formation leases in central Montana. But unlike Statoil's October buyout of Brigham Exploration Co. to gain access to Bakken and Three Forks tight oil plays, Cir...

Linc Energy Ltd. announced May 14 the successful completion of the Jet A1 Dash, a world-first flight using synthetic jet fuel created by using the company's world-leading combination of Underground Coal Gasification and Gas to Liquids technology at its Chinchilla Demonstration Facility in Queen...

Global Diving and Salvage Inc. said May11 that it is pleased to announce the promotion of Ben Daily to Dive Operations Manager-Alaska Region. Daily, with over 10 years in the commercial diving industry, has been with Global since 2004. During his tenure, he has been involved in all facets of the com...

CH2M HILL said May 14 that Mark Lasswell was previously named president and general manager of its Alaska office, transferring to Anchorage from Denver, Colo., in January 2011. Lasswell joined CH2M HILL in 1989 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree and Masters of Science degree in Engineering from...

Environmental and Alaska Native groups on May 16 appealed an air permit granted by the Environmental Protection Agency to a Shell Oil drilling ship that could be used this summer in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska's northern shore. The groups claim the Kulluk and support vessels will put harmful p...

Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. has three shutdowns scheduled in May and June, and two more tentatively scheduled for late July and early August. Alyeska said the shutdowns will last from eight to 18 hours and include maintenance shutdowns in the next month and two shutdowns later in the summer to ins...

Propane or wet gas for road-system towns? Away from the city, North Slope gas for Alaskans becomes an iffy prospect. However, no one has fully analyzed the subject. The state's Alaska Gasline Inducement Act deal with TransCanada requires the company to provide at least five places along its pip...

Known to exist in vast quantities in many parts of the world but with as yet no means of commercial production, methane hydrate could eventually become a prolific source of natural gas. This winter's test of the production of methane, the main component of natural gas, from the Iand#289;nik Sik...

The Paris-based International Energy Agency is questioning a key aspect of President Obama's recently announced plan to curb oil market manipulation. Some political leaders have blamed speculators for high retail gasoline prices. The Obama administration on April 17 called on Congress to give t...

Bob Abbey, director of the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management, will retire at the end of May. Abbey, appointed BLM director by President Obama in 2009, has a 34-year career of state and federal service. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said that under Abbey's lea...

Norway's Statoil is wasting no time moving ahead with recently negotiated partnerships to explore Canada's offshore frontiers in the Beaufort Sea and Newfoundland. It will participate with 60 percent operator Chevron Canada in gathering 3-D seismic in the Beaufort this summer and, as oper...

Following an Alaska Superior Court ruling in its favor last fall, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources is terminating the Arctic Fortitude unit on the North Slope of Alaska. The decision comes six years after the state approved the 6,363-acre unit adjacent to the southern edge of the Prudhoe B...

The Bureau of Land Management has extended the deadline for nominations for five open positions on its Alaska Resource Advisory Council to June 4. Resource Advisory Councils make recommendations to BLM regarding public land and resource management, including land-use planning, recreation, and fire....

The Anchorage Association for Energy Economics' May meeting will be held at noon, Tuesday, May 22 at the Loussac Library. The speaker, Marcus Hartley of Northern Economics, will be discussing 'Modeling Impacts to Fisheries in 5-year Plans for Outer Continental Shelf Leasing.' Also not...

A mix of veterans and a newcomer have raised the curtain on Alberta oil sands projects that are designed to produce a combined 370,000 barrels per day of bitumen. Despite occasional setbacks with its Horizon oil sands mine, Canadian Natural Resources, CNR, is ready to embark on developing two in-sit...

The Bureau of Land Management is calling for nominations and comments on tracts for 2012 oil and gas leasing in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. In a Federal Register notice published May 15, BLM said available tracts are in the Northeast and Northwest NPR-A planning areas. A map and detailed...

Pat Daniel faced one of the sternest tests of his 11 years as chief executive officer of Enbridge on May 9. As he winds down towards retirement later this year, the soft-spoken, 64-year-old took the stage at the annual general meeting of shareholders. In other circumstances, it would have been a bre...

Three environmental groups and a Native tribal organization have filed a lawsuit in the federal District Court in Alaska, appealing the issue by the National Marine Fisheries Service, or NMFS, of an authorization to Apache Alaska Corp. for the accidental disturbance of marine mammals during offshore...

Cook Inlet's notorious drifting ice factored into a 'near miss' involving an oil tanker over the winter. The incident, which just recently came to light, occurred on Jan. 13, a Friday, at the Kenai Pipe Line Co. terminal at Tesoro's Nikiski refinery. A Tesoro investigation report...

Although the fundamentals of energy supply and demand still underpin the long-term future of the oil and gas industry, the pace of change in the energy scene has been accelerating, Edward Chow, senior fellow of energy and national security at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Was...

Canada urgently needs to hasten the development of its stranded natural gas for export as LNG, or miss the boat to Asia, said Ernst and Young and federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver. A report by the consulting firm said joint ventures and partnerships - such as those being sought by EnCana...

The State of Alaska took in $6,865,835 in apparent high bids on almost 200,000 acres at its areawide Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale May 16 in Anchorage, the second-highest dollar volume for a Cook Inlet sale since areawide sales began in 1999. The state's 2011 Cook Inlet areawide sale broug...

Hilcorp Alaska LLC is planning to resume using the tank farm at the Drift River oil terminal on the west side of Cook Inlet. In fact, the company already has obtained interim permission to fill one of the enormous tanks at Drift River. Hilcorp has told state officials it's important to bring Dr...

The Northwest Territories government is open to supporting an LNG export project to develop Canada's stranded Arctic gas resources, said NWT Industry Minister David Ramsay. He said that although his government prefers to build a pipeline down the Mackenzie River Valley to southern markets, LNG ...

Shell said April 18 that Rita Ramoth, winner of the Harvey Gulf International Marine and Shell Vessel naming competition, was accompanied by her Aunt Janet Mitchell and Shell Communications Specialist Michelle Malerich for a three day trip to New Orleans including a tour of the city and of the vesse...

The ASCE said April 25 that it is requesting a call for papers for the upcoming 10th International Symposium on Cold Regions Development in Anchorage, Alaska, June 2-5, 2013. The Technical Council on Cold Regions Engineering of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Alaska Section of ASCE w...

Great Bear Petroleum LLC formed a number of affiliates earlier this year to manage its massive North Slope land holdings, according to recent state leasing reports. The Alaska independent transferred complete working interest and sizable royalty interests - between 83 and 87 percent - in its North S...

The Red Wolf No. 2 exploration well in the eastern North Slope's Badami unit was 'a dry hole,' operator Savant Alaska's president told Petroleum News May 8. 'The well was a dry hole. ... our target zone was wet (contained water),' Greg Vigil said. Red Wolf No. 2 targete...

Fairbanks: the cost of getting warm Fairbanks North Star Borough residents currently are out in the cold when it comes to low-cost energy to heat their homes, stores and office buildings. Mostly they burn fuel oil to generate heat, with the price chained to today's high oil prices - the highest...

A year-long study by the Brookings Institution, a non-partisan public policy organization, has found that the export of at least some LNG from the United States is likely to be both feasible and in the country's best interests. The study, which focused on the export of LNG from the Lower 48 sta...

On May 2, the Anchorage Economic Development Corp. held its annual event celebrating the release of its latest resource extraction projection report at the Downtown Marriott Hotel. Sponsored by Northrim Bank, the 2012 AEDC Resource Extraction 10-Year Project Projection focused on the oil, gas and mi...

In the latest of a series of court actions designed to pre-empt last minute litigation against its planned Arctic outer continental shelf drilling this year, Shell has filed a petition with the federal District Court in Alaska, asking the court to rule that the National Marine Fisheries Service prop...

It has been four or five months since the Corps of Engineers approved the Colville River crossing that ConocoPhillips needs for its CD-5 oil field development in the northeastern corner of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, and the company is progressing its planning for the project, with the ob...

Hours before Gov. Sean Parnell abruptly withdrew his revised production tax bill from consideration by a special session of the Alaska Legislature because of lack of support in the Senate, Great Bear Petroleum's top executive, Ed Duncan, addressed the Senate Resources committee, in testimony th...

Fairbanks Natural Gas LLC recently extended its Cook Inlet supply contract by one year. The extension now gives the Fairbanks gas distribution utility until May 31, 2014, to switch its supply source to the North Slope, the company recently told regulators. In March, the Regulatory Commission of Ala...

The state and BP are about to begin arbitration proceedings over the 2006 pipeline leaks in the Prudhoe Bay oil field. The stakes are high, with potentially hundreds of millions of dollars on the line. The arbitration stems from a civil suit the state filed against BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. in Ma...

Dan Sullivan, Alaska's natural resources commissioner, recently lit out for Washington, D.C., with a 22-page presentation under his arm titled, 'Alaska Gas Opportunities.' By the time his weeklong visit was over, the report was marked up and dog-eared from showing it over and over to ...

The number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. was up 20 the week ending May 4 to 1,965. Houston-based oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. reported that 1,355 rigs were exploring for oil and 606 were looking for gas. Four were listed as miscellaneous. A year ago t...

Crude oil prices are dropping and U.S. crude oil production is rising, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said in its May short-term energy forecast, released May 8. EIA is now forecasting a $110 per barrel U.S. refiner acquisition cost this year, down $2.50 per barrel from the April outloo...

The Obama administration said May 4 it will for the first time require companies drilling for oil and natural gas on public and Indian lands to publicly disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations. The proposed 'fracking' rules also set standards for proper construction of ...

The tiny village of Nikolaevsk could soon become the second community in the southern Kenai Peninsula to be added to the Southcentral natural gas distribution grid. The Armstrong Oil and Gas Inc. subsidiary Anchor Point Energy LLC recently asked state regulators to approve an agreement with Enstar N...

Since July 2010 Cook Inlet independent Aurora Gas has been trying to persuade the State of Alaska to combine a couple of state leases near the community of Kasilof on the Kenai Peninsula with an adjoining Cook Inlet Region Inc. lease to form the Cohoe unit. The state leases had been due to expire in...

Connected to the rest of the Alaska Railbelt electrical grid by a single intertie and with its power supply contract with Chugach Electric Association due to terminate at the end of 2013, Homer Electric Association, or HEA, the main power utility on the Kenai Peninsula, has been moving ahead with it...

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she sees 'real merit' in the Obama administration's proposal to move the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from the Commerce Department into the Interior Department. Murkowski, a Republican, explained her view on the matter in a recent op-...

TransCanada Alaska filed a notice with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission May 3 terminating its first binding open season. The open season for the Alaska Pipeline Project, APP, began April 30, 2010, and ended July 30, 2010. APP is the project licensed to TransCanada in late 2008 by the State...

For Gov. Sean Parnell, simple economics dictate that lower oil production taxes will make more North Slope projects profitable. It's also clear that declining oil production is not okay, putting at risk thousands of direct and indirect jobs. Parnell has made tax reform a top priority but has st...

Imperial Oil and ExxonMobil Canada, the Canadian surrogates of ExxonMobil, are taking baby steps towards exporting LNG from their stranded natural gas reserves in British Columbia. Their key joint holding covers 340,000 acres of shale gas properties in the Horn River basin of northeastern British Co...

NordAq Energy Inc., the small independent that has been quietly pursuing a program of oil and gas exploration in Alaska's Cook Inlet basin for the past couple of years or so, says that it now plans to drill two exploration wells in its Tiger Eye prospects onshore the west side of the inlet. The...

China's stable of state-owned energy companies has invested about C$20 billion in Canada's oil sands and shale gas assets - proof positive that Beijing is ready to ride out a stormy passage for pipelines from Alberta, across British Columbia to ship production across the Pacific, says Zhan...

Hilcorp Alaska is focused on finding and producing more oil and natural gas from legacy Cook Inlet assets. It acquired Chevron's Cook Inlet assets last year and is in the process of acquiring Marathon Oil's inlet assets. Producing from old wells and fields is the company's strength, ...

Pioneer Natural Resources Alaska Inc. is announcing a 50 million barrel discovery at its budding Nuna development based on exploration drilling completed this past winter. The Nuna No. 1 well tested at an initial production rate of 2,000 barrels of oil per day, the Texas-based independent said durin...

Alaska's unemployment rate dropped to 6.9 percent in April, its lowest level since December 2008 and well below the U.S. rate for April of 8.1 percent.

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The first shipment of Alaska's Copper River salmon arrived Friday morning at Sea-Tac Airport aboard an Alaska Airlines cargo flight from Cordova.

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Facebook is updating its status to "public company" as its stock jumps in its debut on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

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/images/stories/mp3/school_funding_may_18.mp3 Jennifer Canfield/KMXT (mailto:jennifer.canfield@kmxt.org) The Kodiak Island Borough School District will be making another $456,000 in cuts to its FY 13 budget. The school district was hoping to benefit from extra fish tax revenue, b...

Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, is asking the federal government for $45 million over two years to clean up debris from the devastating Japanese tsunami [...]...

Picnics, fishermen scrambling to get ready and some beautiful fish...

Tales of Cordova's Fine Boats and Wonderful Meals...

Northern Dynasty says upcoming months will include on-going environmental studies and more, to initiate permitting by year's end...

Crab fishermen struggling against record sea ice to harvest their allowable quota of snow crab have been given reprieve, a season extension through [...]...

Alaska Park Science publication offers online the latest scientific information on region's volcanoes...

Making up for the snow delay, boats are being lifted around the clock...

Local telephone cooperative realizes yet another communications milestone, launching new long distance telephone service for cooperative members and other customers...

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In March, the Alaska State Fair announced eight of this year's 12 performers, including high-profile acts like '90s rock radio staples Creed and ventriloquist/ stand-up comic Jeff Dunham. Now the…

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FAIRBANKS — Fairbanks Aviation Day, from 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, allows the public to get a behind-the-scenes look at what goes on at Fairbanks International Airport. The free event kicks off with ... ...

FAIRBANKS — The City of North Pole is throwing an all day Open House from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday that will include a Cruis'n with Santa Car Show and Street Fair, street vendors and entertainmen... ...

By DOROTHY CHOMICZ dchomicz@newsminer.com Slowly but steadily, the soldiers came. Some swung by on crutches, while others progressed step-by-careful-step on prosthetic legs. One young man, missing... ...

By MATT BUXTON mbuxton@newsminer.com Campaigns for this fall's elections have made a slow start in the Interior, given uncertainty about new district boundaries, but two more big names have entere... ...

By JULIE STRICKER jstricker@newsminer.com In the middle of a typical sunny Fairbanks summer day on Sunday, a huge shadow will fall across the sky as a partial solar eclipse travels over the region... ...

FAIRBANKS — Alaska Republican Party Chairman-elect Russ Millette, who will take over the party early next year, will stop in Fairbanks today and this weekend. Millette represents the party's new le... ...

What's happening in sports and recreation around Anchorage…

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Tori Choi of the Arctic Gymnastics Center tied for first place on the uneven bars and earned fifth in the all-around earlier this month in the junior B division of…

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John Lackey outsprinted his nearest competitors to win the expert men's division in the Arctic Bicycle Club's Kincaid Loop Road Race last weekend, and Jenna App raced to victory in…

Andrew Lee was fastest on the red course Wednesday at the Spring-O orienteering meet on Klutina Drive.

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Service High's John Glenn is among a trio of nordic skiers who have agreed to ski for UAA next season, coach Sparky Anderson announced Thursday. Marine Dusser of France and…

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UAA men's basketball announced the addition of a versatile forward Thursday. Mike Mackelvie has signed a National Letter of Intent to play for the Seawolves next season.

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Matt Navakovich edged James Stull in a sprint to the finish Thursday night at the Arctic Bicycle Club?s Glen Alps Hill Climb at Potter Hill, winning the men?s expert division…

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