Photo archive for April 10, 2008
The colorful Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy in Fairbanks on Sunday. The show will debut on Broadway in June.
The colorful Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy performs in Fairbanks on Sunday. The show will debut on Broadway in June.
Author Bjorn Lomborg argues problems such as malaria and HIV/AIDS deserve more immediate attention than global warming.
Ketchikan artist Diane Palmer checks over her Bingo themed Ketch-o-matic vending machine at the Mainstay Gallery in Ketchikan.
Chris Hanson, curator for the Ketch-o-matic vending machine show at the Mainstay Gallery in Ketchikan, works on a machine for artist Diane Palmer at the gallery.
A dollar bill hangs out of the money slot from a vending machine spruced up with a Bingo theme by Diane Palmer for the Ketch-o-matic show at the Mainstay Gallery in Ketchikan. Ketchikan artist Halli Kenoyer painted the vending machine in the background.
This photo released by Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation shows an a simulated oil spill cleanup exercise in broken ice in the Beaufort Sea, off of Alaska in 2000.
This photo released by Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation shows a simulated oil spill cleanup exercise in broken ice in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska in 2000.
Peninsula Airways ground crew examine the wreck of the company's Grumman Goose on April 10, 2008, at the Unalaska airport. The plane was returning from Akutan on Wednesday when it struck a tractor trailer on Ballyhoo Road, then crashed on the runway. Workers at the local health clinic said all nine aboard were treated for minor injuries and released.
A rare yellow-billed loon splashes in the Missouri River in Great Falls, Mont., on Jan. 5, 2007. Conservation groups that sued the federal government to protect the yellow-billed loon said a decision on listing a rare loon as an endangered or threatened will be made by early next year. The Interior Department agreed to make the decision by February.
Four-time Iditarod champion Jeff King, shown in White Mountain on March 11, 2008, has been charged with illegally killing a moose last September inside Denali National Park and Preserve. King said April 9, 2008, that he was not aware he'd been charged with anything and declined comment.
A moose eats a discarded melon in Anchorage on Feb 6. 2007. The moose in Anchorage are increasingly rummaging through trash to find meals, and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game agency is seeking an increased fine for residents whose improperly stored trash attracts animals.
The BP Exploration Alaska Inc. building in Anchorage.
Mike Utsler, asset manager of BP's Greater Prudhoe Bay area, says the company is experimenting with a heavy oil production project adapted from Canadian petroleum processors.
Jim Bowles, president of ConocoPhillips listens to Doug Suttles, president of BP Alaska explain how the two companies decided to work together for a trans-Alaska/Canada gas line to the Lower 48.
Richard Peterson, lot manager at Heindl's Car and Truck Sales Inc. on South Cushman Street, uses a gas-powered blower to clear the fresh snow off the vehicles in their lot Thursday morning, April 10, 2008. "Only in Alaska," Peterson said of the extreme weather changes that occur, comparing the blustery weather with the warm sunshine from the day before. The National Weather Service issued a snow advisory today, saying parts of the Interior could see up to 6 inches of snow today.