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Family fun at the Alaska Railroad open house

FAIRBANKS - Alllll aboard! The Alaska Railroad Corp. is holding its spring Railroad Days open house on Saturday at the Fairbanks Depot off the Johansen Expressway. Meet the people who run the tra...

Shell trains helicopter passengers in survival

Like other oil companies, Shell relies heavily on helicopters to transport its crews and contractors to offshore oil platforms. While most helicopter flights go smoothly, Shell is investing big in training and equipment to reduce the chance of disaster and boost the odds of survival in a crash over the cold, open sea.

The language link between central Siberia, Alaska

Spoken by only a few dozen people, a language uttered in river villages 3,000 miles from Alaska is related to Tlingit, Eyak and Athabaskan.

The language link between Siberia and Alaska

Spoken by only a few dozen people, a language uttered in river villages 3,000 miles from Alaska is related to Tlingit, Eyak and Athabaskan.

Alaska Olympian uses clinics to teach village kids how to ski

Two-time Olympian Lars Flora led a group of accomplished cross-country skiers into Northwest Alaska for week-long clinics at four schools, where the visitors taught kids how to ski and showed them, by example, how elite athletes keep their edge.

High-Speed Rail Link Could Cost Budget $35Bln

A plan for financing a high-speed rail link between Moscow and St. Petersburg indicates that government spending on tracks for the project could reach as much as $35 billion.

Fuel and Oil: Related News

5/18/2012 - Freightliner, Westport Schedule Cross-Country Trips to Prove Viability of CNG Freightliner Trucks and Westport Innovations have scheduled cross-country trips in compressed natural gas-powered trucks to prove the availability of the fuel out on the road. ...

ConocoPhillips Management Discusses Q1 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Executives Clayton C. Reasor - Vice President of Investor Relations, Strategy & Corporate AffairsJeffrey Wayne Sheets - Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Finance Analysts Douglas Terreson ...

The workout of a world champion

For Kikkan Randall, a cross-country skiing world champion, working out in the off-season is about far more than sliding across the snow

A life spent with nature ends

Robert Bruce Facer walked through life one barefoot step at a time, entirely at his own pace. That life ended after 65 years on April 15 in Monterey, the final stop of a journey worthy of poets and mythologists. Facer was a raggedy man who was homeless by choice, not circumstance.