UPDATE: Road Reopened after Downed Power Lines Close Seward Highway
The Department of Public Safety announced this morning that downed power lines have closed the Seward Highway just north of Girdwood.
New Image of Comet ISON
This new view of Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) was taken with the TRAPPIST national telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory on the morning of Friday 15 November 2013. Comet ISON was first spotted in our skies in September 2012, and will make its closest approach to the Sun in late November 2013.
Activists: China Arrests North Korean Defectors, Guides in Kunming
South Korean human rights activists say Chinese authorities have arrested a group of North Korean defectors trying to reach a Southeast Asian nation on their way to South Korea.
Governor Declares Disaster for Storm Ravaged Western Alaska
One week after a series of four storms battered western Alaska with hurricane force winds, Alaska's Governor Parnell made a verbal declaration of a state disaster this Saturday for affected communities in the Northwest Arctic Borough, Bering Straits Regional Education Attendance Area, and the Lower Yukon.