Beavers and jet skis surprised four adventurers on their recent attempt to row through the Northwest Passage. Vancouver, British Columbia residents Kevin Vallely, Paul Gleeson, Frank Wolf and Denis Barnett are now back home after the team stopped short of its goal of gliding through the northern waterway on muscle power.
On Friday, the EPA released its proposed Clean Air Act standards to cut carbon pollution from new power plants in order to combat climate change and improve public health.
With only two Democrats voting for it and one Republican voting against it, the U.S. House passed a short-term spending plan to keep the government doors open until mid-December. But, missing from the plan is funding for President Obama's Healthcare law.
Three Valdez men were traveling northbound on the Richardson Highway when they were involved in an accident after they encountered blizzard conditions with snow accumulating on the highway on Wednesday morning.