Training for Alaska, in New Jersey
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A state known for the turnpike and an abundance of oil refineries is not the easiest place to pursue sled dog racing But that is not stopping Kim Darst.
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TAKOTNA, Alaska -- Lance Mackey is chasing his dream. The other mushers are chasing him at the halfway point of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - About 150 people have been  sent to an Aleutian island to try to clean up fuel oil  streaming from a wrecked cargo ship, but harsh weather has kept  most from the spill site, federal and stated officials said on  Saturday.
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When Jenn Stuczynski started pole-vaulting, she trained in two primitive Quonset huts in Churchville, N.Y., near Rochester. Four years later, she still trains there, but her bar has been raised.
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WASHINGTON _ It's only a short hop by plane from the remote Aleutian fishing outpost of King Cove to the World War II-era airfield at Cold Bay, Alaska's third-largest airstrip.  If only the weather would cooperate, which much of the time it doesn't.
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The 225m-long `Selendang Ayu&#39; ran aground near the Aleutian islands in the Bering Sea. The environment is at threat, but bad weather is preventing a clean-up.
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FORT PIERCE, Fla. - One of two hooded seals that washed up in Martin and Palm Beach counties over the weekend was flown Wednesday to a marine mammal center in New Jersey that is better equipped to care for the cold water animals.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska A salvage team has reached a wrecked freighter in the Bering Sea off Alaska&#39;s coast. For days, the Coast Guard has been trying to get people on the ship, which has broken in two and is oozing oil, diesel fuel and soybeans.
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By Porter, Brenda  No matter where New Jerseyans are, information is at their fingertips thanks to the convergence of voice, video and data. The meeting of these technologies will change the way businesses and residences in New Jersey think, view and communicate with the world around them.
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New York and northeastern New Jersey could get six inches of snow or more by midmorning as cloud cover stretches Monday from the Northeast through the Great Lakes and Northern Plains.
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NEWARK, NJ -- Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards will campaign in New Jersey for the first time on Tuesday, joined by one of the Sept.
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Picture Alaska and most people in the Lower 48 think abundant forests, picturesque bears, frosted tundra and perhaps the odd salmon.
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Rescue and cleanup crews are racing to an isolated island in Alaska&#39;s Aleutian chain to hunt for six missing seamen and begin assessing environmental damage from a grounded freighter that broke apart last night on rocky, wildlife-rich shores and started
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By Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun. 27--WASILLA -- As state officials draft rules for the new Knik River Public Use Area, they're calling on the public to help.
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Alaska is a sleepy frontier backwater until Pearl Harbor. The specter of Japanese troops plunging down from the north frightens two governments into building what will become the Alaska Highway.
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Alaska&#39;s Aleutian Island chain, where a broken cargo ship has been leaking fuel oil for five days, needs the type of environmental protections that are given to better
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Gov. Sarah Palin said on  Tuesday that Alaska has officially started soliciting bids for  plans to build a North Slope natural gas pipeline, a  mega-project that state officials have dreamed about for  decades.