USCG crews practice search and rescue operations in the Arctic
The U.S. Coast Guard conducted its first-ever Arctic search and rescue exercise, Aug. 29, near Barrow.

Wait list grows for popular energy rebate program
Alaska Housing Finance Corp’s new Energy Rebate Program offers up to $10,000 to homeowners who want to make energy efficiency improvements. But there’s a catch: Those checks may take a while.

• McCain-Palin becoming Palin-McCain?

• Woman dies in traffic accident

• Ralph Nader to appear on Alaska ballot

• Lawmaker accused of politicizing Palin probe

• Nev., Calif., officials sign landmark river deal

• Obama rebukes Palin on earmarks

Swimming to a repeat
Building a consistent program is what every coach is aiming for.

The Kodiak Football League proves doubters wrong
Nearly nine years ago today, Rich Walker stood on Joe Floyd Track and Field and cried.

Public office both privilege and duty in American small town
Before Mikhail Gorbachev’s era of Perestroika, Western democracies justly chided the Soviet Union’s empty electoral exercises, where citizens were required to go to the polls to vote for Communist party-dictated tickets that offered one candidate per office.

Alaska will miss Vice President Palin
I am so ashamed of our local Alaska news media who have sunk so low that it seems they feel the need to join a feeding frenzy – finding only fault with Sarah Palin.