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Another gold rush seems to be under way in Alaska. The state's gold production last year - 800,000 ounces - was the highest since 1916.

After watching the creepy "Fourth Kind" this last weekend, I realized whatever the truth of the film, I would not be visiting Nome, Alaska anytime soon.

In 1972, a scale of measurement was established for alien encounters. When a UFO is sighted, it is called an encounter of the first kind.

Suspected swine flu is sweeping a traditional Eskimo whaling village on a remote Alaska island - prompting an urgent medical mission to deliver help.

"I am actress Milla Jovovich," the star says, directly to the audience, as she introduces her new movie, "The Fourth Kind." And those are pretty much the last true words out of her mouth in this gimmicky, "Yes, this really happened" alien-abduction horror hooey.

Believe it or not, the cheesy "testimonial" that Milla Jovovich delivers in the trailer for the alien-abduction fake-doc The Fourth Kind is how the movie actually begins.

Abigail Milla Jovovich Psychologist Elias Koteas Sheriff Will Patton Tommy Corey Johnson Universal Pictures presents a film written and directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi.

Call me crazy, but I expect Richard Heene to be at the front of the line on November 13th when Sony Pictures drops 2012 into theatres across our doomed planet.

Seventy-one years after Orson Welles ' War of the Worlds radio broadcast snookered a gullible American public with its real-time alien-invasion scenario, The Fourth Kind writer/director Olatunde Osunsanmi tries a similar gambit, albeit with less showmanship than Welles had in his pinkie finger.

NEW LAW: Jail time, fines becoming more serious for Alaska Bush bootleggers. Published: November 1st, 2009 10:08 PM Last Modified: November 2nd, 2009 12:14 AM Weeks after two hub cities in rural Alaska voted to remove bans on local liquor sales, the state is launching a campaign warning bootleggers they face big fines and mandatory jail time if ...

The upcoming thriller "The Fourth Kind" also uses Cinema Vrit to help explain what happened to some missing citizens of Nome, Alaska.

The Alaska Democratic Party has sent three names to Gov. Parnell as possible replacements for Richard Foster, the Nome state representative who died Oct.

The Fourth Kind is only a few weeks off so prepare to scare yourself silly. These don't look like friendly aliens.

On September 1, 1859, Richard Carrington, a solar astronomer, drew sunspots he saw through his telescope.

Universal has released a new featurette for "The Fourth Kind" and it's called "abduction". While I was kind of unsure about the film, Universal held a press screening the other night and I've heard positive things.

According to an October 18 report from the San Francisco Chronicle, this past summer a 644-ft-long residential cruise ship with condos costing several million dollars apiece anchored in Nome, Alaska for a two-day visit.

The pinnacle of the ever widening debate between scientific logic versus steadfast belief is found in The X-Files Revelations .

It was the first that many, including Jeffry Silverman, had ever heard of the Tlingit woman who, in 1945, spurred the Alaska Legislature to pass what historians cite as the first anti-discrimination law in America.

The series, titled "Alaska State Troopers," starts Wednesday on the National Geographic Channel.

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