She was governor of Alaska which is the 6th WEALTHIEST STATES IN AMERICA and accomplished in 6 months what all Alaskans had only attempted to do from the time Alaska became a state in regulating the oil industry and getting the gas pipeline built.
After retiring, he lived part-time in Alaska, fishing, hunting and working briefly as a tribal doctor.
But on the northern coast of Alaska, many communities this time of year have no darkness at all.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Four-time champion Martin Buser held on to the lead Saturday in Alaska's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, hoping to be only the second musher to ever claim a fifth title in the race's 40-year-history.
According to the Department of Transportation, Alaska had the best on-time record in the country last year.
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Palin moves away from the pure cultural populism that has defined her since her run for the vice presidency and back toward the reformist populism that characterized her time as governor of Alaska.
It was March the beginning of the Iditarod in Alaska, but a dreary, soggy time in Central Europe.
Boiler shops are now going back to "pluck the chickens a second time, " according to Alaska state investigator Edward Watkins.
"That spirit of revelation also including the spirit of prophecy that God's going to tell you what is going on, and what is going to go on, and you guys are going to have that within you, and it's just going to bubble up and bubble over and it's going to pour out throughout the state of Alaska, " Palin said at the time.
They found that when earthquakes struck in nearly the same place years or decades apart, seismic waves generated by the later quakes arrived in Alaska a little sooner than they had the time before.
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In 1867, the U.S. flag flew for the first time at Sitka following the purchase of Alaska from Russia.
At the time, Kodiak High School was hosting an Alaska Association of Student Government meeting involving youths from around the state.
After graduating in 1969, he joined BP full time as an engineer at Prudhoe Bay in Alaska, where BP had just discovered a massive, 14-million-barrel oilfield.
At the time, Ben Stevens was also president of the Alaska State Senate and he had just written a state law facilitating the buyback.
Obama on Saturday also singled out Palin for the first time for flip-flopping on earmarks while governor of Alaska.
This time he's stranded in the arctic wastes of Alaska when the plane transporting a crew of rugged oil drillers crashes in the back of beyond.
Alaska Airlines landed more than nine out of ten flights on-time in February, according to global flight and airport information service provider FlightStats, which tracks the performance of over 150, 000 flights per day from hundreds of airlines worldwide.
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Defense officials now believe that North Korean missiles can reach Hawaii as well as Alaska, but not the continental U.S. At the same time, U.S. officials don't believe North Korea has developed a miniaturized nuclear warhead that could be mounted on any missile.
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The Bush administration had hoped the treaty could be modified in time to allow it to begin constructing silos and a testing command centre in Alaska next spring.
Seattle-based Alaska Airlines led the major North American airlines in February, boasting 90.56% on-time performance.
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Sarah Palin, hockey mom, Alaska governor and vice presidential nominee, can add one more thing to her resume: prime-time television star.
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