Latest news about Alaska
Nortel's 40G Optical Solution Prepares Alaska Communication Systems For Rise In Internet Traffic (FiberOpticsOnline)
Alaska Communications Systems(2, Alaska's leading integrated telecommunications company, has chosen Nortel(1) to provide a 40G optical network for the terrestrial portion of an undersea fiber-optic cable from Alaska to Oregon
8 Sep 2008, 4:35 am | click here for more
Interior Alaska racing enthusiasts gather along Richardson Highway (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner)
A one-eighth mile stretch of the Richardson Highway was transformed into a drag strip during the weekend, as thousands of race fans showed up to watch amateur drivers from the Fairbanks area and across Alaska push the pedal to the metal.
8 Sep 2008, 4:06 am | click here for more
Alaska Nanooks women set basketball schedule (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner)
A year ago, the Alaska Nanooks women’s basketball team stormed out of the gate with a 7-1 preseason record, but limped home with a 5-13 mark in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference.
8 Sep 2008, 3:56 am | click here for more
Fish, fur, ice and gold tied Alaska to S.F. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Sarah Palin's unexpected burst onto the national scene has piqued sudden interest in Alaska, but few people know that Northern California and the 49th state have been tied together in hundreds of ways in a relationship going back nearly 200 years. For much of...
8 Sep 2008, 3:39 am | click here for more
Palin is definitely ‘Alaska' (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
With walls decorated with fox pelts and polar bear portraits, the private statehouse office of Gov. Sarah Palin is not the typical bureaucratic work space. Of course, Juneau is no typical state capital either. It's accessible only by air or sea, and the borough (Alaska's equivalent of a county) in which it lies has a population of just 31,000 - about the same as north suburban Gurnee, sick.. ...
8 Sep 2008, 3:20 am | click here for more
Hentschel: Alaska governor's speech removes any doubts (Morris Daily Herald)
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is an excellent selection for Vice President of the United States, believes Republican National Convention delegate Herb Hentschel of Morris.
8 Sep 2008, 2:52 am | click here for more
Creek teacher joins seabird research expedition in Alaska (The Bay Area Citizen)
A biology and anatomy teacher from Clear Creek High School spent part of her summer on a research trip to Alaska.
8 Sep 2008, 1:36 am | click here for more
Sale of Alaska's state jet on eBay revealed as a lie (Independent)
Sarah Palin bolstered her reputation as a reformer – and got one of her biggest cheers in her Republican convention speech last week – when she said she had sold the governor's official jet on eBay as her first act on taking office in Alaska.
7 Sep 2008, 7:13 pm | click here for more
Oil wealth masks challenges facing Alaska economy (AFP via Yahoo! News)
However much executive experience Republican vice presidential pick Sarah Palin has gained from her 21 months as Alaska governor, it is unlike that of any chief executive in the 50 US states.
7 Sep 2008, 1:08 pm | click here for more
SMB, Alaska get quality big men (Manila Standard Today)
THE next Philippine Basketball Association every-Filipino season opens in a month’s time, but already the San Miguel Beermen and the Alaska Aces were recipients of two franchise-altering big men in Jay Washington and Joe Devance.
7 Sep 2008, 11:56 pm | click here for more