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The renamed sites include a mile-long stream formerly known as “ Nazi Creek ” and a nearby summit previously bearing a ...
The name “Nazi Creek” will no longer be used for federal databases or maps. On Thursday, the Domestic Names Committee for the ...
The U.S.Geological Survey released the first digital geologic map of Alaska on Tuesday, providing land users, managers and scientists geologic information for the evaluation of land use in ...
Alaska is the only state in the country without a brick-mortar law school, so where do students with legal ambitions go?
Much of Friday was taken up by whether the board treated residents of Valdez and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough fairly when it put them in the same district.
A new study has found evidence connecting the rapid warming of the region with a physical decline in three species of Alaska seals.
This map of Alaska in 1909 shows all of the transportation and communication infrastructure in the territory at that early date: wagon roads, sled roads, pack trails, railroads, telegraph lines ...
Though what we recently released is called the Geologic Map of Alaska, it’s really a database from which many different maps can be created. The advent of digital methods has revolutionized mapping.
During the first week of school in August 2010, students in an eighth grade physical science class at Randy Smith Middle School made a startling discovery. There were racist names on an Alaska ...
Pictures featuring children who underwent child abuse evaluations at The Children’s Hospital at Providence were shown to some state lawmakers by advocates arguing a loophole in current Alaska ...