Alaska

Jeff King gets a lick on the face from his dog Shannon after claiming third place in Nome, Alaska March 16.

Its coastal location and Puget Sound harbors give it a leading role in trade with Alaska, Canada, and the Pacific Rim.

She didn't return my call and gave back the ring, but moving to Alaska was the nail in the coffin and I knew that it was over.

Sarah Palin has been Alaska's governor for less than two years. Earlier, she was mayor of the town of Wasilla for six years.

On the campaign trail Sarah Palin sometimes bragged that she had, as the reforming governor of Alaska, put the state's books online.

Speaking at an air force base in Alaska this week, Mr Bush reiterated his view that America has no choice but to confront them.

I've already told my buddy, Mark, that I am going hunting with him in Alaska.

Plate tectonics eventually sent the site drifting north to its present location in Alaska, he said.

"There's never been a dentist in these rural areas, " said Dr. Ron Nagel , a dentist who helped create the Alaska program.

Likewise, Alaska can be a place of great adventure, and yet authentics can enjoy gorgeous scenery from a train or relax on a cruise ship.

In an appearance on the Fox News television channel, she said her focus had widened since she was governor of Alaska.

They have been used in exercises from Alaska to Hawaii, operating in great temperature and environmental ranges.

I grew up in Alaska and felt confined, wanting more than anything to leave and one day be free.

Six years ago, he took a trip to Alaska, acting on an urge for something different and a longtime interest in gold mining.

Mr. Munger grew up in Omaha and joined the U. S. Army during World War II, serving as a meteorologist in Alaska.

Corridors began to open up along the coast and through the mountains, letting people migrate south from Alaska for the first time.

Above the Trans-Alaska Pipeline in midwinter, sundogs meld into a halo around the sun.

Other team members have suggested building a robot to run the Iditarod in Alaska or to serve as an ambulance in Antarctica.

Which animal hero was one of the best- trained search dogs on the Alaska Search and Rescue dogs' team ?

This programme investigates the rate and extent of the melt down in some of the remotest regions on Earth from Alaska to Antarctica.

In the vice-presidential matchup, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska has refused to provide any health records or to be interviewed on the subject.

If you really want to get out of here and get away from it all the flight to Anchorage, Alaska, is actually boarding.

Before 2007, Colorado and Alaska were the only states that did not require a state licence for mortgage- brokers .

After the war, it was not easy for Seward to convince the Senate that Alaska would be an important addition to the United States.

How much do you think Alaska, the nation's largest state, would be worth today?

Sebastian Schnuelle checks one of his dog's paws as as he prepares to leave the Nikolai, Alaska checkpoint March 9.

How does a thing like this work? Because she steps down and no longer the governor of Alaska.

This stone spearhead is by no means unique; it is just one of thousands that have been found across North America, from Alaska to Mexico.

Anchorage, Alaska: Ask for directions at this airport and somebody might just tell you to take a left at the polar bear.

A framed satellite image of the Bering Strait that separates Alaska from Russia like a thread hangs from his office wall.

The first Americans crossed the land bridge from Asia and were believed to have stayed in what is now Alaska for thousands of years.

Only Hawaii and Alaska are outside the contiguous United States and do not share a border with any other US state.

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin is still on the fence about whether or not she wants to run for President.

Modern forms of transportation and communication have done much to break through the isolation of lifein Alaska.

Jeff King works on his team as Lance Mackey walks in from the checkpoint as they prepare to leave Unalakleet, Alaska March 14.

At the end of the film, she takes the survivors and flies to Alaska in an Umbrella helicopter in hopes of a life free of the T-virus.

Lt. Col. Franklin Preparing for those potential threats forms the foundation of regular large-force exercises that take place in Alaska.

Mary Cook works on the ground crew for an air taxi company in Gustavus, Alaska, a community of 450 surrounded by Glacier Bay National Park.

Known by the men who built it as "The Road, " the Alcan Highway is still Alaska's main link to the "lower 48" states.

Scientists studying bears around the Beaufort sea, north of Alaska, claim this endurance feat could be a result of climate change.

That's a great deal of munitions for someone content to rest on her laurels at home in Wasilla, Alaska (population 9, 000).

In nineteen thirty-five, only two years after his around the world record flight, Wiley Post was killed in a flying accident in Alaska.

Alaska's state flower is the alpine forget-me-not. The best time to see the alpine forget-me-not is midsummer, from late June to late July.

Ice, seen from below, covers the surface of the Arctic's Beaufort Sea. The sea is found north of Alaska and Canada.

'We've got to make sure we don't kick the economy in the head, ' Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R. , Alaska) said.

Underneath the ice, spikes meet spikes as an Alaska king crab the size of a nickel crawls over a knobby sea star.

After a week at home from Japan, we were sent to Alaska for six months for survival training.

Shell's experience in Alaska is being repeated around the North Pole. And such clashes are bound to become even more common.

My archaeology class is taking a future trip to Alaska and I may never get another change like this.

In Juneau, Alaska, the Rev. George Silides and his wife will bring turkey to a church potluck, but not much more.

It has worked on glass for a Paris airport, an Austrian subway, Tokyo storefronts and is supplying a museum in Anchorage, Alaska.

It was trialled on Amchitka island in Alaska and used to monitor the eastern coast of Russia until the system was dismantled in 1993.

Alaska officials are releasing thousands of pages of Sarah Palin's emails from her first 21 months as governor.

Xinhua said the remarks were in reaction to Mr. Chen's stopover in Alaska on Sunday.

It's not like the dismal job market has forced me to move back to Wasilla, Alaska.

Some states, like Florida and Alaska, have no state income tax at all, whereas all Canadian provinces and territories levy an income tax.

Anchorage, Alaska, is one of those unloved places that just about everyone feels free to take a pop at.

Citizens Against Government Waste complained that, thanks to Mr Stevens, Alaska regularly got more dollars per head than any other state.

He praised Palin for her record in Alaska, where she has served as mayor and state commissioner, and was elected governor in 2006.

Around the end of June 2010, or early July, he says, the U. S. will break into six pieces -- with Alaska reverting to Russian control.

The summer ice loss in the Arctic is now equal to an area the size of Alaska, Texas, and the state of Washington combined.

Republican governors in South Carolina, Alaska, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas have made a show of refusing some of the stimulus money.

Kachemak Bay, Alaska, is one of the richest fishing grounds in the world. People have lived there for thousands of years.

Money moved to Alaska. After a while, she got used to (or got accustomed to) living in a cold climate.

Nevertheless, the wave quickly ran out of steam as it entered the Gulf of Alaska and soon dissipated, causing no further problems.

Then you won't be able to go on your boat trip to Alaska.

"It would be reasonable for Russia to lay claim to Alaska; it was part of the Russian Empire for a long time. "

With billions in oil revenue, the local government in Alaska has decided to give some of that money to the people.

Properties may be accessed by road from the Alaska Highway and by an airstrip suitable for small aircraft.

Kansas City: Another major city in the US heartland and used to be the geographic center of US before the inclusion of Hawaii and Alaska.

The word come from Chinook , spread wide and incorporate Vancouver get Alaska white man and American Indian term of area already now.

Economically nuts as it was, the US Department of Transportation approved the useless-bridge-in-Alaska project in 2004.

In one tense exchange, Alaska Democrat Mark Begich was initially rebuffed when he asked Press for a list of dealers scheduled for closure.

The company says the four hundred thousand barrels of oil a day represent half of all the oil produced in Alaska North Slope area .

Today, petroleum transported across the state through a pipeline is Alaska's richest mineral resource.

The extent to which money woes are weighing on children is clear from the letters flooding into North Pole, Alaska.

That sharply contrasts with Chen Shui-bian, who at the end of his final term was allowed only short refuelling stops in Alaska and Hawaii.

Caribou graze on tundra, tinted orange by the sun, somewhere between Nome and Teller on western Alaska's Seward Peninsula.

In permafrost areas in the Soviet Union or Canada or Alaska, ice has been used effectively for walling and roofing.

The Juneau Icefield, one of the five largest ice fields in North America, is in the Coastal Mountains of Alaska, USA.

im sure that will help the people in Alaska and Hawaii feel better, Since NK is trying to wrk the two places into their offensive envelope.

Or, to be more exact, Alaska was at one time connected with the tip of Siberia.

Today environmental groups are fighting proposals to open protected areas of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil drilling.

Alaska, too, will have the full moon and the solstice occur on these respective dates, but in a time zone one hour later than Hawaii.

Obama, whose flight will stop for refueling in Alaska, is due back in the United States on Thursday.

Patterns in Nature: Rainbows Like a portal to wild spaces, a double rainbow hangs over the Alaska Highway in British Columbia, Canada.

He played a key role in Alaska's economic development, and was a towering figure in his home state.

American writer Jack London was among the gold seekers. He became famous for writing about his experiences in Alaska and Canada.

For the state of Alaska, good management of salmon fisheries is of enormous economic importance.

Fighter units from around the world come to Alaska to take advantage of the expansive airspace and extensive ranges .

There should be safety benefits as well: in an ADS-B trial in Alaska, the accident rate for planes fell 47%.

Life in Alaska, we knew, would be a challenge but undoubtedly very interesting.

The state of Alaska released the messages Friday almost three years after they were requested by reporters under open-records laws.

Climbing a nearby peak on foot he looked out over the Alaska wilderness. 'This is about as far away as you can get from Wall Street.

Like the rainforests of the tropics, Alaska's coastal rainforest teems with wildlife.

The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation said there was a plan to build a bypass pipeline for the damaged section.

It was told by an anonymous Kwakiutl Indian of southern Alaska to a missionary in 1896, and here it is.

The United States was not far behind with the discovery of the shallow-water Prudhoe Bay field in Alaska five years later.

The Alaska Volcano Observatory records five thousand a year.

The source of this conflict will substantiate the Russian attack on the American State of Alaska and against Canada.

You know what, if we wanted a governor who swears they have no idea what's happening in their house, we'd move to Alaska.

The Bear Glacier in the Kenai Peninsula along the Gulf of Alaska empties into a lake.

In Alaska, the vast, cold region known as the "Northern Slope" is part of the tundra.

The eclipse was also visible from Finland, Sweden, Siberia, northern China, parts of Alaska and Canada, and Iceland.

He's ending a long-standing ban on drilling along the Atlantic coast in parts of the Gulf of Mexico and off northern Alaska.

But he had, at least, been governor of California, not Alaska, and had read widely.

Palin dressed in black and wore gold earrings in the shape of her home state of Alaska.

The fact that it is, with the exception of Alaska, in the temperate climate zone is of basic importance.

America suffered a devastating oil spill in 1989, when the Exxon Valdez, a large oil tanker, ran into a reef off the coast of Alaska.

Alaska, to the northwest of Canada, and Hawaii, in the central Pacific Ocean, are the noncontiguous states of the United States.

State economists say Alaska had twenty-one years of economic growth through two thousand eight.

The sea otter is a small mammal that lives in waters along the western coast of North America from California to Alaska.

Had it gone the other way tonight, we would not have returned in sorrow to the great State of Alaska.

Bald Eagles are a frequent sight in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. These two eagles were perched on top of a street light post.

leach is now working as an attorney in alaska. she credits her cover letter as being "key" to finding her job.

Lance Mackey prepares to leave the Unalakleet, Alaska checkpoint in first place March 14.

He noted that aside from Alaska, Delaware, North Dakota and Maine, all of the states have at least 100 people worth $30 million or more.

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has declared she will not run for the White House next year.

In Alaska, there was a fishing village where all fishermen were making a living by catching eels.

Kodiak bears are a particularly large subspecies of brown bear, endemic only to the Kodiak archipelago off the Alaska coast.

Texas Congressman Ron Paul is hoping for a breakthrough in some of the smaller states voting on Tuesday like Idaho, Alaska and North Dakota.

But, while Inuit describes all of the Eskimo peoples in Canada and Greenland, it does not encompass all the peoples in Alaska and Siberia.

Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said voters will send a clear message to the White House.

Eat This Instead: When you shop for king crab, whatever the label says, ask whether it comes from Alaska or if it's imported.

Seventeen of the tallest mountains in the United States are in Alaska. They include the tallest mountain in North America.

I'm a state trooper in Alaska, and I've been called to investigate many cases of poaching.

manufactured products of the State of Alaska , and those of Hawaii are sugar and canned pineapples .

Hagel says 14 additional interceptors will be added to the 30 already in place in California and Alaska to shoot down incoming missiles.

Range: Northern and western Alaska and Northern Canada, Russia, and Greenland; a few records indicate presence farther south.

Whether purchasing Alaska by the United States in 1867 was foolish or not is heatedly debated.

Another important industry in Alaska is tourism, much of it involving cruise ships.

Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park, Alaska is one of the really amazing places on the planet.

Raytheon through its E-Systems subsidiary now owns the patents used to develop the HAARP weather warfare facility at Gakona Alaska.

As mayor of Wasilla, she cut her own salary, and was appointed ethics commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.

The company said a ticket on a ship from Seattle to Skagway, Alaska was thirty-five dollars.

Alaska had felt like my last chance to make something of myself.

Did you know that the farthest point east and the farthest point west in the United States are both in Alaska?

Aerial wolf-killing is banned in the rest of the country, but it does not lack for supporters in Alaska.

A dead whale has been found pinned to the bow of a cruise ship off the coast of Alaska, the third such incident in a decade.

Separates the sea and Japanese and American Alaska faces one another.

It was therefore quite distressing when, in the late 1980s and 1990s, hundreds of headless walrus began to wash up ashore in Alaska.

McCain praised Palin's policies as governor of Alaska, saying she was taking the lead in reducing America's dependence on foreign oil.

Former US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has formally resigned as Alaska governor, 18 months before the end of her term in office.

The 50th star had been added for Hawaii, a year earlier the 49th, for Alaska.

Nulato: on the Yukon River in western Alaska, was an Indian and Eskimo trading-site.

The incident introduced the non-native Norway rat - also known as the brown rat - to Alaska.

What are the names of the capital of Hawaii and Alaska respectively? Honolulu is the capital of Hawaii and Juneau is the capital of Alaska.

The Justice Department says Ted Stevens of Alaska received more than a quarter of a million dollars in gifts and services.

Maya's grandfather brings her a pig from Alaska and the two of them learn about fun and sharing together.

Last stop on our global tour, Alaska, where an oil rig was a little to shore than you might expect, right up on it.

Hi. I'm Vanessa . -Hi. I'm the husband. -This, of course, is Juno. -Like the city in Alaska!

No, I answer with a chuckle, there's no such industry in Alaska. But that's okay, because my son is not an engineer.

Way up north, Alaska is called the Last Frontier for understandable reasons.

Jessica: They're Dr. and Mrs. Cullen's foster kids. They moved down here from Alaska like a few years ago.

White people were more likely than African-Americans, Asians, Native Americans, or Alaska Natives to be drinkers.

From the Bering Strait into Alaska, northern Canada, through the Greenland area Mongolians living in the Arctic CircleSpecies of a group.

Through it all, her once stratospheric popularity in Alaska began chipping away.

S. history, which gave money and land to Alaska-native village and regional corporations and allowed the pipeline to be built.

It has been the center of oil-drilling activities since the discovery of vast petroleum deposits on Alaska's North Slope in 1968.

An Alaska Airlines flight from Guadalajara, Mexico to Los Angels had been evacuated today after a suspicious item was found on board.

Patterns in Nature: Rainbows Rainbows brighten Alaska's tundra, parts of which are estimated to hold millions of barrels of oil.

I just got back from Alaska. I left last night and flew all night. The flight was packed so I did not get any sleep.

When photographing an already picturesque scene above Juneau , Alaska, USA, a camera caught green sub-visual aurora near the horizon.

In Alaska, Republicans had faced up to their problem by replacing Mr Murkowski in the primary.

After being sold to North America, abounds in gold of cold remote Alaska, into a sled dogs.

The researcher Tony Fischbach observes hundreds of walrus as they cover the US shores of the Chukchi Sea near Point Lay, Alaska.

Nigam says among the airlines, JetBlue, Southwest and Alaska Airlines, have reached that level.

After graduating, my orders were to proceed to Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska.

The following pictures are of a guy who works for the US Forest Service in Alaska and his trophy bear.

A forest of dead spruce trees near Homer, Alaska, is the victim of a tiny beetle that has boomed in the state's milder winters.

She is also the subject of an investigation in Alaska involving firing of a state official.

Of course, that poll was taken before she announced, on July 3rd, that she would step down as governor of Alaska without finishing her term.

In Alaska and the great lakes region of north America winter activities include ice fishing, hunting, cross-country skiing and snowmobiling.

Thousands of miles to the northwest, BP was addressing safety issues on its Alaska pipelines.

Alaska is on the border of northwestern Canada, far enough north that part of it is within the Arctic Circle.

But in an interview on "Fox News Sunday" , he says he is not sure if Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will be the candidate to lead the comeback.

It was told by an anonymous Kwakutl Indian of southern Alaska to a missionary in 1896, and here it is.

Above, Herman and Candelaria Zapp pose with baby Pampa in Alaska as they finish the first leg of their journey around the world in 2002.

"This celebration is about sharing our subsistence resources, " says Harry Brower, chairman of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission.

My goal on this winter trip to Alaska was to spend a full week photographing Bald Eagles.

When they go shopping, she teaches them economics. On holiday in Alaska, they made moulds of a wolf's pawprint, a "science adventure" .

On Wednesday, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, McCain's choice for the vice presidential slot, is tentatively scheduled to speak.

Almost Native Americans and Alaska natives have been abused by the Catholic priests at schools in five states in the northwest.

Hoping to stem this loss, the industry is expanding west into the unprotected wilderness of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

Most of America's tidal-energy capacity is in Alaska, too far from big population centres.

Passengers on Alaska Airline's flight finally made it to San Francisco after their flight was diverted yesterday.

Now, she complains, the Democrats in Alaska won't work with her any more.

From Alaska to Kansas to the Gulf, Magner has talked to people whose lives have been destroyed by BP's almost unparalleled corporate greed.

Alaska and Hawaii are the two newest states in American. Alaska northwestern lies in Canada, and Hawaii lies in the central Pacific.

The deaths took place during the late summer and fall on the Russian side of the Bering Strait, which separates Alaska from Russia.

We can't afford Bridges to Nowhere like the one that was planned a few years back in Alaska.

The trip to Alaska provided him with inspiration for his novel.

Scientists in the Arctic are reporting a rare mass migration of thousands of walrus from the ice floes to dry land along Alaska's coast.

Kuhn is a native of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory's largest city, which sits nestled between the Alaska Highway and Yukon River.

McCain's vice presidential running mate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, defended the Republican attacks on Obama at a rally in Pennsylvania.

The governor of Alaska shares John McCain's reputation for being a reformer and for sometimes going against their party's platform.

While standing watch in the Coast Guard station in Juneau, Alaska, I got a call from the Navy in the nearby city of Adak.

Palin traveled from Alaska to Ohio Friday along with her husband Todd and four of their five children.

"It feels like a stepping stone to Alaska, " Reid says. "You see a lot of wildlife you wouldn't see in other places. "

An investigation has begun into alleged misconduct by prosecutors in the case against the former Republican senator from Alaska.

Texas and Alaska were the only states not to take part.

My sister lives in Alaska, so I only get to see her once in a blue moon.

Alaska, he wrote, was a "dreamland" where they "fished alongside bears" and "lay awake listening to wolves" .

In the end I ate five lobsters, four Alaska ice crab legs, a plate of vegetable salad , two bottles of juice, and a cup of hot chocolate.

Take the current debate raging over oil drilling in a corner of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge.

After nine days in Alaska, Mr. Sherlund headed home and prepared for his first day back at the office.

Alaska is to the north, just across the water from the indoor ski and recreation center.

Historians say Congress was also unsure about the loyalties of the Alaska natives -- the Aleuts, Indians and Eskimos.

You know, we bought Alaska.

A double rainbow plunges into a gorge in Alaska's Denali National Park.

They pad across the ice from Russia to Alaska, from Canada to Greenland and onto Norway's Svalbard archipelago.

The Alaskan Eskimo traditionally occupied the areas of Alaska north of the forest boundary from North Sound to the Canadian border.

Migrating caribou on Alaska's North Slope transition from winter snow cover to open grazing grounds.

including the bootlegging issues out in Rural Alaska.

This makes the United States have cold (Alaska), wen (the continental United States 48 states), thermal (Hawaii) three zones of territory.

wildflower with heart-shaped leaves and broad yellow flower heads; of alpine areas west of the Rockies from Alaska to southern California.

Most of the shaking is not very strong, but Alaska has had some of the biggest quakes ever recorded.

Earlier this month, tens of thousands of walruses crowded onto a sandy stretch of beach on Alaska's northwest coast.

Alaska became an official territory of the United States in nineteen twelve.

A secret Iranian uranium-processing facility was discovered. North Korea launched a rocket that the West believed could target Alaska.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most-admired woman for the ninth year in a row, edging out former Alaska Gov.

Defence analysts question whether North Korea has a missile capable of reaching Hawaii or Alaska.

Spruce bark beetles have boomed in Alaska thanks to 20 years of warm summers. The insects have chewed up 4 million acres of spruce trees.

Alaska lies far to the north of the western United States from which it is separated by the provinces of Canada.

Dozens of such fires rage throughout the country, impossible to extinguish, eating through coal veins from Alaska to the Carolinas.

One is Grizzly Man's Timothy Treadwell, who lived among wild bears in southern Alaska, recording their strange behavior, and his.

Veterinarians bring dropped dogs down to the river landing strip to be flown out at the Yukon River checkpoint of Ruby, Alaska March 12.

I just thought, you should have a little piece of me, up there in Alaska.

Most of the wild salmon caught in North America comes from Alaska. That state banned farmed salmon from its waters years ago.

Alaska Airlines asked for a public inquiry into Virgin America's "citizenship status" .

The Republican from Alaska was in a DC court today and his trial could begin as early as September.

A duffel bag on the floor held the fruits of his Alaska trip, a 10-pound brick, some loose flakes and nuggets in small glass vials.

Over the Alcan Highway, the military could transport troops, food, and supplies to strategic points in Alaska.

Newly declassified images have been released showing the devastating impact of global warming in Alaska.

There are more questions than answers, they say, about how the worldwide economic downturn will affect Alaska.

A sprawl of thousands of Atlantic walruses covers a haul-out site in Alaska's Togiak National Wildlife Refuge.

However, even bigger quakes have occurred at the plate boundaries along the west coast and Alaska.

For several years after arriving in Alaska they had lived with no electricity or in-door plumbing in a smaller house, a cabin.

Indigenous groups from around the world are meeting in Alaska this week to discuss global warming.

Our first 'voyage' destination was to drive from Argentina to Alaska, but we don't plan our routes.

A typical Red Flag Alaska involves eight to ten squadrons with a variety of aircraft.

Protesters promised to oppose attempts to put oil wells in wild areas of Alaska.

"Bringing Red Flag to Alaska had a lot to do with the available airspace here and the threat capabilities we offer, " Franklinexplains.

Two of the biggest earthquakes that were ever recorded took place in China and Alaska.

And, like the Alaska Marine Highway, it travels where no roads do.

In 19th Century Alaska, whales were caught containing tips of harpoons that had been thrown by whalers in the Atlantic.

The discovery of the largest oil and gas field in North America led to the Alaska Pipeline.

This summer Fu says she's heading off to do an engineering internship for oil field services giant Schlumberger in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.

Particularly in Alaska, we understand the inherent link between energy and prosperity, energy and opportunity and energy and security.

I just thought, you should haveabca little piece of me, up there in Alaska.