Rivers Of Alaska Links

Road trip: Alaska Highway picturesque beyond words (Inside Bay Area)

The 1,422 mile stretch from Canada through Alaska is filled with mountains, forests, wild animals and more side trips than you realistically can take in a three-week trip.

Alaska in three weeks (San Jose Mercury News)

After driving the Alaska Highway last summer, I have advice for anyone wishing to follow my tread marks on the last, great road trip left in North America: Leave the camera at home.    Alaska in three days    Alaska, 50 years young

Mostly moist in the South; Alaska in deep freeze (USA Today)

Mostly moist in the South -- A storm system developing in the northern Gulf will stream moisture into the southern Plains, lower Mississippi Valley and Southeast today. The heaviest rainfall (around 2.00 inches, with locally heavier amounts possible) is expected to stretch from northeastern Texas through northern Louisiana, northern Mississippi into northwestern Alabama. Flash flood watches are ...

Entry into Union was cause for celebration across Alaska (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner)

FAIRBANKS — The early morning sun glistened on Gastineau Channel 50 years ago Saturday as federal judge Raymond Kelly, clad in a black robe, administered the oath of office to Alaska’s first elected governor.

If Alaska never became a state ... (Anchorage Daily News)

Nine distinguished Alaskans -- among them two delegates to the 1955-56 Alaska constitutional convention, the last territorial governor, a Native leader, a top economist, an oil man, a historian, a journalist and a statehood critic who wants Alaska to secede from the union -- tried to imagine the difference.