Oct. 29, 1942: Alaska Highway Opens as a Hedge Against Invasion
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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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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - A federal judge issued a   preliminary ruling on Thursday that temporarily blocks the U.S.   administration's plan to allow oil development in the sensitive   wetlands near vast Teshekpuk Lake in Arctic Alaska.
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DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska - In the first few days after 1989&#39;s Exxon Valdez disaster, fishermen were forced to fell trees and drop them across favored spawning streams to halt the spread of oil.
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The administration was warned of the potential costly consequences of a U.S.-led invasion two months before the war began.
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After spending the summer getting used to sweltering temperatures, hundreds of Alaskan soldiers are getting ready to head to Iraq in that state's largest deployment of National Guard troops since World War II.
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The ambush on a dangerous section of the nationâs main highway was only one of several attacks on a violent day.
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The federal government will open up nearly 46,000 square miles off Alaska's northwest coast to petroleum leases next month, a decision condemned by enviromental groups that contend the industrial activity will harm northern marine mammals.
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VANKOR FIELD, Russia  - Half a century ago, Josef Stalin banished his foes to labor camps in East Siberia. Now volunteers are lining up to drill the frozen wastelands for their vast reserves of oil.
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By Craig Medred, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Sep. 24--SANDPOINT, Idaho -- The war on predators is being waged on a distinctly different front here.
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Jermareo Davidson scored 15 of his 17 points in the first half, leading No. 19 Alabama to a 90-55 rout of Division II Alaska-Anchorage in the first round of the Great Alaska Shootout on Wednesday night.
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OOSTERBEEK, Netherlands - Sixty years ago, the skies above the Dutch countryside filled with the white silk of parachutes of 30,000 Allied troops while tanks rolled up from Belgium along a narrow road that became known as "Hell's Highway."   In the legendary "Market Garden" operation, which began Sept. 17th, 1944, a massive force that was supposed to end World War II found it had attempted to go "a bridge too far."   A ceremony Sunday commemorated the heroic but doomed assault with Dutch schoolchildren raising flowers above their heads before laying them on the graves of the 1,750 Allied soldiers - mostly British - buried in Oosterbeek near Arnhem...
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Description: Conditions in the Bering Sea make any rescue attempt challenging for the Coast Guard in Alaska, which has responded to the grounded freighter near the Aleutian Islands.
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Sea erosion brings an urgency to archaeologists' work, as bodies emerge on the shoreline of northern Alaska.
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Throughout that time, Auschwitz lay beyond the range of Allied bombers. It was first overflown by an Allied reconnaisance aircraft on April 4, 1944.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Japanese and U.S. officials have found four mass graves that they believe hold the remains of 500 World War II soldiers, nearly 65 years after a bloody battle on the remote Alaskan island of Attu.
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Under the glare of the port lights, federal agents watched as the GMC Yukon approached the immigration booth. Two years of legwork &#151; interviewing sources, listening to wiretaps and watching just as they were watching now &#151; had led to this. Aurora Torres, the suspected smuggler, was behind the wheel.
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Sparks territorial rights row The Northwest Passage, a much-sought shipping route, opened to sea traffic this summer, as arctic sea ice fell to the lowest levels observed since we started keeping track almost 30 years ago.â¦