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On the verge of Southcentral running out of natural gas in Cook Inlet, one Alaska Native corporation presented a plan October 9th that could help offset Southcentral's crisis and dependence on the main way it gets energy.

An Anchorage Native corporation said this morning it aims to build a new electric power plant on the west side of Cook Inlet -- using coal instead of the region's dwindling natural gas supply.

Energy topped Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Dave Carey's list during his borough update speech presented to the Kenai Chamber of Commerce last week.

Scientific reports commissioned by an environmental law firm in Anchorage conclude that critical salmon fisheries would never fully recover from impact of a proposed Chuitna coal strip mine.

Salmon-producing streams near a proposed coal mine will never fully recover if the mine is developed, according to three reports commissioned by a public interest law firm.

Alaska State Troopers confirm two people are dead resulting from a collision that involved five vehicles about a mile north of Beluga Point on the Seward Highway on Thursday afternoon.

Alaska State Troopers confirm two people are dead resulting from a collision that involved five vehicles about a mile north of Beluga Point on the Seward Highway on Thursday afternoon.

Alaska State Troopers confirm two people are dead resulting from a collision that involved five vehicles about a mile north of Beluga Point on the Seward Highway on Thursday afternoon.

Alaska State Troopers confirm two people are dead resulting from a collision that involved five vehicles about a mile north of Beluga Point on the Seward Highway on Thursday afternoon.

Along a picturesque stretch of the Seward Highway about noon Thursday, the driver of a white pickup swung into the passing lane to get around a line of cars -- a move that spurred a chain reaction of vehicle collisions that ended with two teenagers dead and a pregnant woman hospitalized, Alaska State Troopers said.

Two people have died and two others were injured in a five-vehicle pile-up near Beluga Point that closed the Seward Highway for more than four hours, according to Alaska State Troopers.

Alaska State Troopers confirm two people are dead resulting from a collision that involved five vehicles about a mile north of Beluga Point on the Seward Highway on Thursday afternoon.

Alaska's "coal fields"? An active coal lease borders both sides of the Matanuska River for approximately three miles near King Mountain.

A dozen white motor homes clogged the Kenai Holiday gas station parking lot Monday morning, giving locals a rare glimpse at the kind of caravan that has been conspicuously missing from the summertime scene so far this year.

A Fairbanks man is trying to bring nuclear-powered electricity to the area. John Reeves, a special assistant to the state transportation commissioner, hopes to build a small nuclear power generation facility in Ester south of Fairbanks.