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Royal Dutch Shell and contractors Noble Drilling and Edison Chouest will answer questions from the U.S. Coast Guard at a hearing in Anchorage, part of the investigation into the New Year’s Eve grounding of the oil rig Kulluk on Kodiak Island.
Jim Paulin, Carey Restino
One small Alaska town’s flooding worries have subsided for now, but another community's may have just begun along the Yukon River.
Jerzy Shedlock
While Bristol Bay Native Corp. opposes the proposed Pebble Mine, it recently signed an agreement with an exploration company to look more closely at the other mineral prospects.
Carey Restino | Bristol Bay Times
Mid-May snow blanketed Anchorage, breaking multiple records, including one nearly a century old. Now communities north of Alaska’s largest city are going through much the same.
Jerzy Shedlock
OPINION: Despite one researcher's view, the "sport trophy" fish of Alaska's world-famous Kenai River, along with the people who fish them, did more than anyone or anything to preserve and protect the river habitat.CommentaryCraig Medred
University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers were in Barrow, testing the shore-fast ice along Alaska's North Slope, which has been getting thinner, breaking up earlier, and freezing later in the year.ArcticMolly Rettig

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News & Politics

Family from Arctic Alaska to make reality TV debut

First, there was life on the high seas with fishermen from Dutch Harbor. Then came Ariel Tweto flying wild, which was followed by Sarah Palin and the treasure seekers. Now get ready to meet the real rural Alaskans -- the Hailstones.Alaska Dispatch and Arctic Sounder staff

Voices

Penning some revisionist history about Kenai king salmon

OPINION: Despite one researcher's view, the "sport trophy" fish of Alaska's world-famous Kenai River, along with the people who fish them, did more than anyone or anything to preserve and protect the river habitat.Craig Medred

Arctic

Spring in Barrow: round-the-clock daylight and dangerous cracks in sea ice

University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers were in Barrow, testing the shore-fast ice along Alaska's North Slope, which has been getting thinner, breaking up earlier, and freezing later in the year.Molly Rettig