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• 'Grey' matter: Action-survival films

  Jan. 27, Liam Neeson will don a parka and head for Alaska in "The Grey," an action-survival film about a group of oil-rig workers whose plane crashes in the icy wilderness. Sounds pretty chilly -- especially when the wolves show up.Whether audiences will embrace   Read more »

• Alaska gets help during wintry weather

  Alaska -- As a Russian fuel tanker slowly moves through the frozen Bering Sea toward an iced-in city in western Alaska, it has been getting help from an unusual source at its destination: a drone that flies overhead and sends images of the sea ice to researchers   Read more »

• Frankenbach, 82, East End veterans advocate

  affairs on the South Fork, he was its heart and soul as well.An Air Force veteran who regularly flew in bombers from Puerto Rico to Alaska on missions to jam Soviet radar from 1947 to 1952, he came home to Southampton and opened a garden center, one still   Read more »

• Hanukkah menorah lightings around the globe

  activities. On Dec. 25, Chabad of Alabama will host a dinner with kosher Chinese food and a menorah lighting.In Anchorage , Alaska , at the Egan Convention Center on Dec. 20, "Cirque de Hanukkah" will feature an acrobatic display by a troupe that recently   Read more »

• Drought leaves slim pickings for migrating birds

  -- From nesting grounds in Alaska and Idaho to the prairie potholes in Canada , thousands of sandhill cranes, snow geese and other migratory birds are making their way south to their traditional winter watering holes in the American Southwest.The problem is   Read more »

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• HAS OBAMA APPROVED ANY MOVES FORWARD IN DOMESTIC OIL DRILLING OR PRODUCTION?

  Beltway Confidential: President Obama threatened to veto legislation that would expand oil drilling in Alaska and offshore reserves and greenlight the Keystone XL pipeline construction, after he warned this morning that gas prices will continue to rise. “Because 2/14/12 from The Astute Blogger Read more »

• Palin on Obama's contraception controversy

  logged in as Account Former Alaska governor takes on president's 'accommodation' to the Catholic Church and why battle is not over ©2012 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. 2/14/12 from FOX News Read more »

• State of Daniel: Palin the Brightest Star in GOP

  is crucial to winning elections" Chioco said. The cheers for Romney the current front-runner came nowhere close to those for Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Chioco cited a CBS poll which stated that 58% of Republicans want more Presidential choices. "Whether 2/14/12 from Smart Girl Politics Read more »

• Coffin opposes approving $8.5 million plan to reopen F Street

  said of the portion of F Street that was blocked. "What a horrible waste of money. It is as bad as that 'bridge to nowhere' up in Alaska." When the Legislature approved Assembly Bill 304 in 2009 in response to protesters who opposed blocking the street, Coffin 2/14/12 from Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com Read more »

• Photo Release: Valdez mayor thanks Coast Guard

  role Coast Guard Forces Valdez personnel played in assisting the community of Valdez following a record snowfall in January. JUNEAU, Alaska – Capt. Norman Custard, Coast Guard District 17 chief of staff, and Rear Adm. Thomas Ostebo, D17 commander, meet with 2/14/12 from US Coast Guard Read more »