In this week's Star: hilarious and slightly depressing "gossip" from Levi Johnston's bitchy, MySpace-y sister Mercede! Do you care about the petty dramas of unwed teen parents in far-off Alaska? You do if it also involves Parallel Universe Vice President Sarah Palin, who ascended to the post of Empr...

The news just keeps getting worse for the Girl Scouts. First some jerk started paying for cookies with fake money — now some guy in a ski mask robbed some Girl Scouts who were selling cookies outside of a grocery store in Alaska. According to the Juneau Empire, the girls and their troop leader...

The only member of genus Cerorhinca, the Rhinoceros auklet (Cerorhinca monocerata) is closely related to the puffins. A fish-eating sea bird, they are sometimes called Rhinoceros puffins. The common name "Rhinoceros" comes from the horny protrusion jetting up from the......

Do you know about the Iditarod? It is the most amazing race in the entire world. In simple terms it's a sled-dog race here in Alaska but that doesn't give you any idea of the scope of what the race encompasses. Named after the Iditarod Trail the Iditarod Sled Dog Race starts in Anchorage in southcen...

Utah, that's which state! Or so says Harvard researcher Ben Edelman, who "analyzed subscriber data from an unnamed 'top 10 seller of online adult entertainment.'" When comparing broadband subscribers, Utah comes in first with an average of 5.47 per 1000. In second place is Alaska with just over 5.03...

Filed under: Airlines, Video OK, so the whole Ryanair paid bathroom thing was probably just a hoax by the Ryanair CEO, or another of his cheeky ways to create some free publicity for his low cost airline. But it turns out that we here at Gadling were not the first to make fun of the concept of a pai...

By Tim Mowry Published Monday, February 23, 2009 The Associated Press Photo by Sam Harrel FAIRBANKS — Ester photographer LeRoy Zimmerman made the switch to digital cameras this year to better capture the phenomenon known as the aurora borealis. Now he just needs some aurora to work with. “Thereâ...

Hey everybody, remember I said I thought I may be getting sick. Well, it’s official. I’m now sick. Chest congestion, and stuffy head seem to be the worst. I’m coughing up green gunk. I suppose that’s good but, yuck. Better to get it out though. I’m drinking my get well ...

Filed under: Activism, North America, United States, News Mertzon, TX is taking hunting to a new level. If law proposed by Rep. Sid Miller is passed, you'll be able to jump on a helicopter and take pot shots at wild hogs ... if you have a permit. Lock and load! Grab a rifle or shotgun, set the rotor...

The future of the GOP, in all her glory: A couple of weeks before the Alaska legislature began this year's session, a bipartisan group of state senators on a retreat a few hours from here invited Gov. Sarah Palin to join them. Accompanied by a retinue of advisers, she took a seat at one end of a con...