Alaska ends plan for `bridge to nowhere'
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Some called it a bridge to the future. Others called it the bridge to nowhere.
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By Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 13--Thousands of people in Kodiak and other Alaska communities might lose their right to subsistence hunting and fishing under federal law.   If that happens, many say, they'll lose a way of life.
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Pro-Taliban militants in a Pakistan tribal border region with Afghanistan said Sunday they had scrapped a controversial peace accord reached with the government last year.
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WASHINGTON Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said Friday that he has scrapped a proposal critics said would seriously weaken the law protecting endangered species.
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In a win for environmentalists, the  U.S. Interior Department says it is willing to withdraw  sensitive wetlands from a large area in Alaska's western Arctic  region that it wanted to open next week to oil and natural gas  drilling.
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A planned tie-up between Australia&#39;s Qantas and Air New Zealand has been thrown out by New Zealand&#39;s High Court. The decision ends a two-year effort by the airlines to fight off low-cost carriers by combining forces.
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JUNEAU, Alaska  - Satellite fields surrounding the  giant Prudhoe Bay oil field will no longer be allowed to take  advantage of a state tax break that was intended to encourage  development of marginal deposits, Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski  said on Wednesday.
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In a win for environmentalists, the   U.S. Interior Department says it is willing to withdraw   sensitive wetlands from a large area in Alaska's western Arctic   region that it wanted to open next week to oil and natural gas   drilling.
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Citing damage to salmon rivers, Russia on Monday withdrew environmental approval for the Royal Dutch Shell-operated Sakhalin-2 liquefied natural gas project.
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The move is a step sought by two unions in exchange for dropping legal action against the carrier. If the hiring of Bridge Associates LLC is formally approved in bankruptcy court, the move will end a two-month
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The Bush administration said Wednesday it will put off until after the election a final decision on a plan to allow road building and logging on 58 million acres of remote forests where both are now prohibited.
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MOSCOW -- Russian regulators could cancel Total SA's license to extract oil in an Arctic region, a government ministry said Wednesday, a move that comes just days after a Shell project led by Shell had a key permit pulled.
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The high-speed ferry, running between Rochester and Toronto, will run no more, at least for the foreseeable future. Canadian American Transportation Systems, the ship&#39;s operator, has suspended service after
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HELENA, Montana  - Federal officials and the state of Montana said on Friday they had agreed to scrap a plan to kill 300 bison, including an estimated 100 calves, roaming outside the confines of Yellowstone National Park.
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By JOHN BRENNAN Mountain View Telegraph  The U.S. Air Force has decided to scrap a plan to fence off a popular hiking and biking area in the East Mountains.
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SEATTLE - Once again, the Alaska Way Viaduct in Seattle is closed for it&#39;s semi-annual maintenance inspection. Saturday crews temporarily closed the road to inspect the safety of the structure, and discuss ways to improve it all together.
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By Allen Thomas, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Mar. 8--Skamania and Toutle fish hatcheries face closure this year unless they are rescued by a $600,000 appropriation in the state's supplemental budget.