alaska

Such a heartwarming story

Dear Lord I could not live here.

This winter, Maine has captured plenty of weather headlines. While bitter cold and ice have dominated the news, one interesting stat has slid through the cracks.     Since July 1st, around 20 #earthquakes of Magnitude 0.5 or greater have occurred in Maine. 6 of tho ...

Kelly Pickler and her husband Kyle brought their film crew with them to Alaska as part of the season 3 final of her reality show 'I Love Kellie Pickler.' The trip included some mishaps during a boat trip. According to theboot.com Pickler and crew got stuck on some fairly large chunks of ice. The Pickler show airs Thursdays at 11 on CMT.

The United Way of Anchorage, Alaska organized an event to bring awareness to homelessness in the city and they set a world record in the process.

The world’s longest endurance paddling race is the Yukon 1000 held since 2009. This year two Mainer’s won the race on the Yukon River.

A small village on a remote Alaska island in the Bering Sea had one postal worker to deliver mail to residence. They ‘had’ one postman, now they have none after their only mail delivery person had to quit because she is pregnant.

Ashley Switzer from Homer, Alaska, looked in her freezer and noticed there wasn’t any meat, so she decided what better way to get meat than to go hunting. It was early September and she was home alone because he husband was off working on a fishing boat about 130 miles away.

Alaska is the state that has the highest rates of fetal alcohol syndrome in the country so they are introducing a new campaign of putting pregnancy test in bar bathrooms. It’s to prevent pregnant women from drinking.

Experts have been saying for years that Global Warming was decimating the polar bear population at the Arctic Circle, but a surprising find in a new book, ‘Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye’, shows there are more polar bears alive today than in the last 40 years.