Photographs of frolicking sea otters projected onto a screen greeted students, staff and members of the public coming into Egan Library Thursday night for the "Sea Otter Symposium" hosted by the University of Alaska Southeast.

"It is often said that Leonardo (Da Vinci) drew so well because he knew about things; it is truer to say that he knew about things because he drew so well.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - After decades of scouring the universe, astronomers finally have found two immense clouds of gas that are pristine - free of the metals fired out into the cosmos by stars.

Last week's showing of the film "Not Evil, Just Wrong" was not productive, just noisy. The film and its supporters seem to have little interest in bringing us closer together, encouraging healthy debate, or presenting any kind of meaningful solutions to climate change.

During the middle of the first half of St. Olaf College's women's soccer game against Augsburg College last Wednesday in Northfield, Minn., Juneau's Carolyn Detjen swooped in from her position at left forward and knocked in the rebound of a St. Olaf shot that hit the goalpost.

ANCHORAGE - More than three-quarters of the sea otters sent to zoos and aquariums after being oiled in the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill have died, according to researchers.

Traditional wisdom and cooperation may help restore native cultures and plants. Both tribes and land managers have high hopes for tribal-state partnerships sending forth tender green shoots from the ground of a troubled history.

When Belinda Mulrooney arrived in Juneau around the turn of the century, she was already a savvy businesswoman on her way from poverty to wealth. She was barely 20 years old.

Alaska used to be home to a previously unknown and "highly carnivorous" subspecies of ice age wolf with jaws so powerful it could snap a mammoth's thigh bone in two.

Mischa Plunkett and Joshua Jackson are engaged to be married at the end of May in Juneau.