Alaska unemployment hits 6.9 percent CBS News JUNEAU, Alaska — Alaska's unemployment rate last month dropped to 6.9 percent, its lowest level since December 2008. The state labor department says the preliminary, seasonally adjusted rate is slightly lower than March, when unemployment stood at 7 ...
EPA: Alaska mine prospect could affect quality of water, fish Fairbanks Daily News-Miner by Becky Bohrer / AP JUNEAU, Alaska - Failure of a large-scale mine planned near the headwaters of one of the world's premier salmon fisheries in Alaska could wipe out or degrade rivers and streams in the region for decades, the US Environmental ...
Alaska Targets An Old Foe: Tuberculosis NPR (blog) by Annie Feidt Kotzebue, Alaska, is a remote arctic community of some 3000 people. Alaska public health official Dr. Michael Cooper says that when he worked here three years ago, he occasionally saw patients with classic symptoms of tuberculosis — but ...
Friday Travel Ticker: Alaska up close Los Angeles Times One of America's best train trips gets even better this summer as the Alaska Railroad combines rail travel with glacier and ice climbing, in a day trip out of Anchorage; www.ascendingpath.com and www.alaskarailroad.com .
Alaska Bird and Farm Animal Rescue Welcomes Miniature Horse msnbc.com The Alaska Bird and Farm Animal Rescue, an animal education rehabilitation and petting farm, welcomed a "miniature" addition to their group this spring. Only on msnbc.com Mom speaks out over school's Facebook snooping Tools of the spy trade: Robot fish ...
Anchorage Alaska Hotels Celebrate Anchorage Citywide Cleanup Week 2012 San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Hampton Inn, Embassy Suites, Homewood Suites And Hilton Garden Inn Hotels Help Cleanup Anchorage Anchorage, Alaska (PRWEB) May 17, 2012 Four Anchorage, Alaska hotels help cleanup when they participate in Anchorage Citywide Cleanup Week this year.