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Either we're sitting on a potential cure of high oil prices or we're wasting our time.
America's wildlife refuges are so short of money that one-third have no staff, property is in disrepair, and drug dealers are using them for illicit purposes, a study says
Two U.S. Air Force F-15s escorted two Russian Bear long-range bombers out of an air exclusion zone off the coast of Alaska, U.S. military officials said Wednesday.
The U.S. Coast Guard continued to search Monday night for a crew member missing after his fishing vessel sank Sunday in the frigid waters off Alaska's Aleutian Islands, killing four others.
For years, I've persuaded my family that it's my very important job that causes me to put off booking trips. But the real problem is twofold: I'm often convinced that if I plan too far ahead, something better will come along; and I'm as addicted as an online gambler to last-minute offers.
There are more than 160 ships in the fleets of the 24 major cruise lines and more than 7,500 itineraries, from Alaska to Zanzibar. So how do you decide which one most suits your style? Follow these 10 steps to ensure smooth sailing:
American fighter jets intercepted two Russian bombers, one of which buzzed a U.S. aircraft carrier in the western Pacific on Saturday, U.S. military officials told CNN Monday.
U.S. Coast Guard planes and ships were searching Friday for a Japanese balloonist who disappeared off the Alaska coast while flying from Japan to the west coast United States.
Most members of Congress call them earmarks. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tried to get them called "legislatively directed spending." But for almost every American taxpayer I've run into over the last year, it's called "pork" and it's not very tasty.
Three conservation groups notified the federal government Wednesday they intend to sue to get polar bears listed as a threatened species due to global warming
Either we're sitting on a potential cure of high oil prices or we're wasting our time.
America's wildlife refuges are so short of money that one-third have no staff, property is in disrepair, and drug dealers are using them for illicit purposes, a study says
Two U.S. Air Force F-15s escorted two Russian Bear long-range bombers out of an air exclusion zone off the coast of Alaska, U.S. military officials said Wednesday.
The U.S. Coast Guard continued to search Monday night for a crew member missing after his fishing vessel sank Sunday in the frigid waters off Alaska's Aleutian Islands, killing four others.
For years, I've persuaded my family that it's my very important job that causes me to put off booking trips. But the real problem is twofold: I'm often convinced that if I plan too far ahead, something better will come along; and I'm as addicted as an online gambler to last-minute offers.
There are more than 160 ships in the fleets of the 24 major cruise lines and more than 7,500 itineraries, from Alaska to Zanzibar. So how do you decide which one most suits your style? Follow these 10 steps to ensure smooth sailing:
American fighter jets intercepted two Russian bombers, one of which buzzed a U.S. aircraft carrier in the western Pacific on Saturday, U.S. military officials told CNN Monday.
U.S. Coast Guard planes and ships were searching Friday for a Japanese balloonist who disappeared off the Alaska coast while flying from Japan to the west coast United States.
Most members of Congress call them earmarks. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tried to get them called "legislatively directed spending." But for almost every American taxpayer I've run into over the last year, it's called "pork" and it's not very tasty.
Three conservation groups notified the federal government Wednesday they intend to sue to get polar bears listed as a threatened species due to global warming
A 7.2 magnitude earthquake shook the western end of Alaska's Aleutian Islands early Wednesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
A large earthquake rattled Alaska's seismically active Aleutian Islands, but there were no immediate reports of any damages or injuries
In the Bering Sea, waves freeze as soon as they hit the deck of the Rollo, a 107-foot crabber out of Seattle and a star of Discovery Channel's top-rated reality series Deadliest Catch. The Rollo is one of about 70 ships registered to operate in Alaska's booming fisheries; over the course of a two-week journey, its five-man crew, headed by captain Eric Nyhammer (in blue), will collect up to 200,000 pounds of snow crabs, a nearly $300,000 haul.
First the good news: Alaska's North Slope may hold 235 trillion cubic feet of untapped natural gas. Now the bad news: There's no pipeline to carry it 3,600 miles across the tundra to U.S. and Canadian consumers. And while today's natural-gas prices could support the $25 billion pricetag, a staredown between Alaska's governor and Big Oil may scuttle the plan to build one.
State Street Corp., the Boston financial-services giant, could be hit with lawsuits by investors, including attorneys general in Idaho and Alaska, upset over steep losses suffered during the credit market turmoil, a newspaper reported Friday.
In making "Into the Wild," Emile Hirsch forded rivers in Alaska, coped with blazing desert heat and rode raging rapids in the American Southwest.
The FBI has taped conversations between Republican Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska and an oil company executive who has pleaded guilty to bribery, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation.
Nearly every Alaskan will soon receive a check for $1,654, their share of the state's oil riches, Gov. Sarah Palin announced Wednesday.
FBI and Internal Revenue Service agents searched the Alaska home of longtime Sen. Ted Stevens on Monday amid a corruption probe that already has snared two oil-company executives and a state lobbyist.
Rescue authorities reported all five people aboard a small sightseeing plane were killed when it crashed in a mountainous area of southeast Alaska on Tuesday, a Princess Cruises spokeswoman said.
Settled at the edge of Alaska's south-central shorefront, Seward is a small town with a big view. Mountain ranges rising to 3,000 feet surround its harbor on Resurrection Bay. Snowcapped peaks and sheer walls of evergreens dwarf the rustic outpost.
Next time you order a shrimp cocktail, eat a bagel with smoked salmon or enjoy a tuna sandwich, know this: The world's appetite for fish is growing a lot faster than the oceans can supply them.
Georgia and Alaska joined the growing list of states pushing up their presidential primary voting to Feb. 5, a date clearly shaping up as a national primary day for Republicans and Democrats
All of the passengers aboard a U.S. cruise ship were evacuated early Monday morning after it ran aground off the southeastern coast of Alaska, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
The cost of a college education may be rising scary fast, but the act of saving for it is finally getting cheaper. Competition has broken out among providers of 529s--the tax-advantaged plans for f...
The following is a list of tsunami warnings and watches following a major earthquake on Wednesday in the Kuril Islands.
"This is where it all started," says BP Prudhoe Bay field manager Kemp Copeland, pointing to a rust-colored steel pipe snaking its way across the bleak Alaska tundra 250 miles north of the Arctic C...
Oil prices, rallying earlier in the session, ended the day little changed despite a government report showing supplies of crude oil, gasoline and distillates falling more than expected.
As BP shuts down its corroding pipelines in Alaska's North Slope, some analysts are wondering why the problem wasn't caught sooner and say that the company's problems foreshadow a larger mess with the world's aging oil infrastructure.
The Energy Department is considering whether to provide oil from the government's emergency supplies if a refinery requests it because of the disruption of supplies from Alaska, a department spokesman said Monday.
Gasoline prices could break all-time highs in the wake of the Alaska oil field closure, one analyst said Monday.
In a blow to drivers already struggling with high gasoline prices, BP was forced to shut about 8 percent of the nation's domestic oil production for what seems to be a period of weeks after discovering "unexpectedly severe corrosion" in its pipelines in Alaska.
While Washington debates yet another measure to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, Alaska's state legislature is betting that Pac/West Communications, an Oregon PR firm well vers...
A watchdog group Wednesday accused Congress of wasting taxpayer dollars to please the people back home, despite the soaring deficit and mounting bills for hurricane damage and the war in Iraq.
No one can say exactly what it looks like when a planet takes ill, but it probably looks a lot like Earth.
You've probably noticed that President Bush is in trouble in the polls -- an approval rating of just 37 percent in the latest Associated Press-Ipsos poll, the lowest of his presidency. You may not have noticed that the voters give Congress even worse marks, just 32 percent in that same poll.
Citing fears that the U.S. government may allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, about 100 protesters sought to melt their opponents' arguments with a Capitol Hill rally Friday featuring a gigantic baked Alaska.
I WAKE UP AT 3:30 A.M., AND I COME TO MY office at about four to take the ten or 20 orders placed on the answering machine. My customers are hotels and sushi bars from all over--Hawaii but also the...
Staring at the dreaded 2004 tax handbook with a sense of impending doom? Maybe you should crack open the Yellow Pages--not for an accountant, but for a travel agent. Your destination: the Dutch Iri...
Officials in Alaska's North Slope late Monday were waiting for a break in a brutal blizzard to ferry power crews and generators into the remote village of Kaktovik, without power since Sunday.
Authorities struggled Saturday against adverse weather conditions to determine the extent of an oil spill from a Malaysia-flagged cargo vessel that foundered in frigid waters off Alaska's Aleutian Islands.
Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski eked out a narrow victory Wednesday over former Democratic Gov. Tony Knowles in her bid to win a full term.
When large companies slip into financial quagmires, it always amazes me to see where they turn first for a hand up--to their hourly workers and other front-line employees, who are asked to take pay...
U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow said Friday that over-sized government deficits were a potential threat to the economy but said the Bush administration was committed to cutting them.
One of the best inventions has to be the car seat warmer, more affectionately known as the "tushie toaster." I learned the term from my friend's mom growing up, and it always seemed a little warmer to me.
Setting limits on states rights, the Supreme Court Wednesday gave the federal government the power to impose more expensive pollution controls than Alaska wanted regarding power generation at an Alaskan mine.
--Nov. 1-3: Sitka Whalefest An international lineup of biologists and researchers descends on Sitka, Alaska, a coastal town in the state's panhandle and a great place to see humpbacks up close. In ...
Feb. 1-9 John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon Named for a 19th- century Chippewa, this grueling, 420-mile race around the north shore of Lake Superior ranks second in stature only to Alaska's Iditarod...
Parents resolving to save for their kids' college education will get even more help from state governments this year. State-sponsored college savings programs known as 529 plans, which let your inv...
If you need just a few more miles to earn a plane ticket, you needn't take a flight or run up a balance on your credit card. Instead, check out these five possibilities.
The recent overblown headlines about an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease on a cruise ship have overshadowed the real news in cruising: A record shipbuilding spree now under way promises a tidal wa...
1-800-US-B-AND-B Call this toll-free number to shop among 14,000 bed-and-breakfast hostelries, including some in Alaska and Hawaii. Name your destination, and the year-old California service gives ...
For the third year in a row, Alaska and New York occupy the polar extremes in our ranking of state and local tax burdens. A typical prosperous two-income family of four that subscribes to MONEY pay...
What's the difference between living in Alaska and in New York? For a typical two-income family of four that subscribes to MONEY, as much as 17 feet of snow a year and $8,384 in state and local tax...
A penchant for this more potent coffee is moving beyond such sissified metropolises as Seattle, where even Burger King and McDonald's sell espresso. ; Now it's steaming across the rest of the U.S. ...
Weigh a state's tax rules before deciding where to retire. Some 42 states give special tax breaks to people over 65. Even high-tax states like New York soften the blow for seniors. Start by consult...
Unspoiled, unsung and largely undiscovered, America's 2,040 state parks are the nearest thing there is to having wilderness in your own backyard. Says Kathy Bartlett, Northeast regional director fo...
Sure, before you decide where to retire, you plan to study the annual - rainfall, the hospitals and the golfing. But have you considered the taxes? If not, you're asking for more than crowded emerg...
Vacationers planning to holiday in the U.S. this summer will probably do best on air fares by booking at the last minute. A small price skirmish has broken out now that America West Airlines has cu...
The burning of so many oil wells at once is a unique event, and it may be years before the full extent of the damage is known. Such fires put out hydrocarbons similar to auto exhaust, soot, and tox...
THE ARCTIC National Wildlife Refuge is almost as big as Indiana. It begins as a phalanx of magnificent rocky peaks high in the Brooks Range in Alaska's northeast corner, from there tumbling down a ...
THE WORLD'S attention is focused on oil again. But all the easy deposits have been found, and the hunt for new ones is becoming harder, riskier, and costlier. It sends men to the highland peaks of ...
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Few oil companies adjusted to the falling oil prices of the 1980s more deftly than Atlantic Richfield. Arco concentrated on two key regions: It got most of its oil from Alaska, the last great explo...
-- LAWRENCE RAWL, 61, CEO of Exxon, on allowing subordinates to talk him out of his gut reaction to go immediately to Alaska, as critics say he should have, when the Exxon SValdez ran aground: ''Fr...
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THE OIL SPILL at Valdez, Alaska, according to hysteria in some quarters, now ranks in ignominy with disasters like Bhopal and Chernobyl. Valdez is surely a tragedy, born of the most banal negligenc...
If Dawn can dislodge the grease from the oil-soaked sea otters in Alaska, imagine what it can do for your dishes . . . Such lines must have danced in some marketing minds at Procter & Gamble after ...
This might have been a splendid year on Capitol Hill for the oil industry. The outlook for legislation permitting it to develop Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- the nation's most promisi...
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The sea is alive with myths and legends. The condemned Flying Dutchman. The accursed Ancient Mariner. Or the saga of Moby Dick, the great white whale. But to the modern ocean traveler the most horr...
Sam Krogstad, who operates an Anchorage shipping business, found a postal loophole intended for less weighty items that permitted him to mail cement blocks to a hard-to-reach construction site acro...
When the Crazy Horse saloon in Anchorage, Alaska, kicked out Anthony Tait last year for refusing to take off his official Hell's Angel jacket, . . . Mr. Tait . . . filed a civil rights suit. Last m...
Secretary of the Interior Donald Hodel touched off new battles between the Reagan Administration and environmentalists by recommending that Congress open 1.5 million acres in the Arctic National Wi...
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While oil industry earnings suffered from declining energy prices last year, oil pipeline companies gushed profits. Exxon Pipeline, a wholly owned subsidiary of Exxon, made $399.18 million on sales...
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