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Alaska Inmates Find Identity in Orchestra
After serving a 14-year sentence for murder, no one would have expected Sarah Jane Coffman to go anywhere near the Hiland Mountain Correctional Center...
Alaska Fisherman Survives 26 Hours Floating in Fish Crate
The Coast Guard rescued an Alaska fisherman who survived on frigid ocean waters floating in a four-foot-square plastic fish crate after his boat sank.
Ryan Harris,...
Hoax Prompts Free Food From Taco Bell for Alaska Town
Bethel, Alaska is a town so remote that it has a total of zero fast food restaurants. No Burger King. No McDonalds. No KFC...
Boy’s Football Lost in Tsunami Turns Up in Alaska
A teenager who lost his home in Japan's devastating tsunami now knows that one prized possession survived: a football that drifted all the way...
At Last, Fuel Delivery Reaches Iced-in Alaska Town
A Russian fuel tanker has finally reached Nome harbor after a Coast Guard icebreaker cleared a path for it through hundreds of miles of...
Alaska Natives Throw Potlatch Celebration for Deploying Troops
Native-American Alaskans hosted a traditional potlatch on Tuesday for about 400 soldiers and officers getting ready to deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Donations of moose...
US Interior Department Sets Aside ‘Critical Habitat’ for Alaskan Polar Bears
The Obama Administration this week designated more than 187,000 square miles along the north coast of Alaska as “critical habitat” for the polar bear,...
Bakery Rewards Entire Staff with Alaskan Cruise
As a reward for working so hard during the economic slump, owners of a popular Nashville restaurant are taking 48 employees on an Alaskan...
Alaska’s Rat Island Finally Rat-Free After 229 Years
Alaska's Rat Island is finally rat-free, 229 years after a Japanese shipwreck spilled rampaging rodents onto the remote Aleutian island, decimating the local...
Jewelers Shun Gold From Proposed Alaska Mine
"Five of the nation's leading jewelers have sworn off gold that could someday come from the proposed Pebble Mine, a huge deposit near the...
Letters to Santa Flood Alaskan Town
120,000 letters arrive yearly from dozens of countries having made their way to the small town of North Pole, Alaska. "They usually get a...
New Trawling Ban Protects Deep-Sea Alaska Corals
Newly discovered gardens of colorful corals blooming under water in the Gulf of Alaska, will get special protection... A new rule bars...
Canadian Spa Hopes Hair-Freezing Contest Can Continue for Another 12 Years – SEE the Hilarious Winners
Hot springs enthusiasts are hoping for Arctic temperatures in Canada so an annual hair-freezing contest can go forth later this winter.
The yearly competition began...
Good News in History, October 29
101 years ago today, Turkey (Turkiye) declared itself an independent republic, signaling the end of the Ottoman Empire and the election of Mustapha Kemal...
Good News in History, October 28
62 years ago today, the whole world breathed a sigh of relief as the Cuban Missile Crisis ended with Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev...
Good News in History, October 24
20 years ago today, Arsenal Football Club set an unbeaten record winning 49 matches in a row, the most ever in the English Premier...
Good News in History, October 22
49 years ago today, Venera 9, the Soviet Union orbiter-lander spacecraft, became the first mission to enter orbit around Venus, and to return images...
Good News in History, October 18
894 years ago today, Zhu Xi, a revolutionary Confucian scholar of the Song Dynasty, was born. His shifting of the emphasis from the I...
English Couple Quit Their Jobs to Travel Four Years Around the World in a Van Becoming Social Media Stars
A couple who quit their jobs and sold all their belongings to travel in a campervan has completed an epic four-year adventure around the...
Student Dreams of Stadiums Harnessing Crowd Noise for Electricity–Inspired by Monsters Inc.
Have you ever been in a sports stadium when the crowd is so loud it shakes the concrete skeleton of the stands? What if...