At least a million and a half people in Myanmar are in need of food and shelter. Aid teams are arriving slowly from Thailand, but many relief workers are still awaiting visas.
A tenuous ceasefire is in place in Baghdad's Sadr City on Sunday. The Iraqi government and militia members loyal to the anti-American cleric Muqtadah Al-Sadr temporarily agreed to lay down arms. Fighting has been raging in the Shiite slum for the last six weeks, and more than 1,000 people have been killed.
Oil production at Prudhoe Bay was halted today when a vehicle clearing snowdrifts damaged the power supply to processing centers. BP said production would be “way down” today and would ramp back up over the next several days. BP’s Northstar field also went off-line as a result of the power outage. Northstar produces about 79,000 [...]
More than 130 people protested the recent quadrupling of power prices in Juneau this afternoon on the steps of the state capital. In addition to seeking government relief, the Juneau People’s Power Project urged Juneau citizens not to pay the new rates. Rates spiked to 52 cents a kilowatt hour after avalanches knocked out the [...]
Jackson has been with the department since 2003, when she became deputy HSS commissioner in the Murkowski administration. She took over as commissioner in 2005 and was not replaced when Governor Palin took office last year. But Jackson says she recently compared notes with Palin and it was clear they had a difference of opinion. [...]
In Courtroom 25, beneath the faint hum of florescent lights, a trim, grim blonde stands before Magistrate Ron Wielkopolski explaining why she blasted through a red light that dark, slick winter morning at rush hour.
Newly released documents justifying the hundreds of earmarks in the proposed $2.3 billion state capital budget describe Anchorage school grounds fraught with peril for children.
A fter pausing by the lone bench in front of a Sydney Laurence painting during a short tour of the gallery, Nola Lowe grabs her mother's hands and beckons her to stand up. "Come on, Mom. Let's go make some art."
Rep. Les Gara, the Democratic Party's strongest voices for ethics reform, appears to have violated the ban on fund raising during the legislative session.
A change to a 2005 bill reallocated $10 million for roadwork in Florida, reportedly to benefit a political contributor of Representative Don Young of Alaska.