Alaska Odd News

Every year around this time, many children from around the world mail letters to Santa Claus addressed to the North Pole. The post office would actually forward these children's requests for various toys and goodies to North Pole, Alaska, in...

For over 50 years, kids have been able to write Santa Claus and sometimes get a reply from volunteers in the town of North Pole, Alaska. But now, because a volunteer in Maryland was discovered to be a sex offender,...

Is she or isn't she? Well, according to an article appearing in the upcoming August 2009 issue of Runners' World , she is. Never one to back off from challenges of all kinds, Palin is shown in the magazine in...

Alaskas Rat Island is finally rat free. It has been 229 years since the Japanese ship wreck spilling rodents on to the remote Aleutian Isalnd, killing all local bird population. Helecopter hoisted buckets spilled poison into the island, and there...

American talk show host Rush Limbaugh, who fashions himself as the new 'face' of the US Republican Party, has been accused of a lot of things: misogynist comments, prejudiced opinion on African Americans, insensitive remarks about the physically disabled and...

Today/last night marked the eruption of Mount Redoubt in Anchorage, Alaska. It has been reported that Mount Redoubt had erupted 4 different times during the night, which has caused the Alaskan Airline to cancel all of its flights during this...

Bristol Palin, the daughter of Alaska governor Sarah Palin, has made a public statement about being a mother for the first time. She says it is rewarding to have a baby but at the same time, her “life is no...

Article and Photograph by, Theresa F. Koch The Lady of the Lake they call her. It is a strange feeling indeed to walk upon this old weather reconnaissance model aircraft submerged in the water out in the middle of the...