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Another storm system, this one coming out of the eastern Gulf of Alaska is moving into the eastern PWS region this morning.A This low, combined with cold air advection from the west, will drop generous amounts of snow today over Cook Inlet today and tonight.A PWS will see mainly snow, however rain is a threat in Cordova this morning.A Snow totals ... (more)

When Nicole Stellon O'Donnell was poking through the archives of the Rasmuson Library in graduate school, she found many books and stories about people who helped found Fairbanks.

Don't tell that to the town of Valdez, Alaska, which has enjoyed more than 328 inches of snow this season - about 10 feet above average.

Few people outside the aerospace sector are aware of the breadth and depth of our admittedly insular little world.

The Flint Hills Refinery at North Pole has started a four-day shutdown to finish a project under which the refinery is removing some of the heat from the 80,000 barrels a day of oil that it returns to the trans-Alaska pipeline.

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The National Weather Service says a "mixed bag" of freezing rain and snow is causing hazardous driving conditions north of Anchorage on the Glenn Highway.

An Alaskan oil supertanker that regularly travels off the British Columbia coast developed a crack in its outer hull and is undergoing repairs while a U.S. Coast Guard investigation continues.

During his transcultural medicine/wilderness medicine rotation in Willow, Alaska, Justin Carricaburu, D.O., learns about winter survival, including how to dig a snow cave.

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Tomorrow is Feb.1, but it is going to feel more like April 1. The National Weather Service in Taunton is forecasting a high temperature of 51 degrees tomorrow, almost 20 degrees milder than the average high temperature of 32 degrees, according to meteorologist William Simpson.

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