It has been reported by the Anchorage police that overdose of heroin led to the death of a teenager from Alaska. The deceased girl, Jena Dolstad, was injected with heroin by a 26- year- old man.

Recently, it has been found that shellfish that is harvested from the southeastern tip of the state consists of high concentrations of a dangerous poison that can take life of innocent humans. Therefore, public health officials have warned Alaskans to avoid eating these.

Adding to the agony of already disgraced health care law, one more Governor from Republic has refused to implement the law in his region.

This time it is Governor Dean Parnell from Alaska. Parnell declared on Thursday that he orders for the discontinuation of the law, as it was strongly felt that the law is unconstitutional.

Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. has plans of starting its Trans Alaska Pipeline today after repairing of the line that carries eleven percent of American crude production took longer than scheduled.

Just after midnight Saturday, oil halted to flow and the pipeline was totally drained to revive the leakage, near the opening of the line at Pump Station.

The line which was leaking was incased in cement, hence at present work parties are installing pipe to go around the affected part and take oil flow one time again.

The Alaska oil pipes will remain shut for the next 36 hours. This news that was broken by the operator had added that the oil pile will remain closed due to some of the restoration works and bypass that is long overdue. The main reason as it turns out is because of the installation of the bypass which is aimed at restoring the oil shipment to the top volume.

The occurrence of oil spill at Alaska has led to increase in the petrol prices in the global market and they could reach to £6 a gallon, as believed by some experts.

Since the advent of the year, the petrol prices have been rising; firstly due to the rise in the flue duty and secondly because of increase in VAT to 20%.

In what apparently is a consequence of a partial settlement in an ongoing lawsuit, the US Interior Department on Wednesday announced that it has set aside more than 187,000 square miles (120 million acres) of area along the northern coast of Alaska offshore as “critical habitat” for polar bears.

Comedian Kathy Griffin had a go at Sarah Palin, by taking her show, Life on the D-List, to Alaska, which is Sarah Palin's homestate, on Friday.

She delivered constant jabs at the former Alaska Governor in Municipality of Anchorage.

Major cruise lines that operate in Alaska have sued the state on Friday, saying the head tax levied by the government was unconstitutional. 

The lawsuit was filed by the Alaska Cruise Association, which represents Royal Caribbean Cruises, Carnival Corp, Norwegian Cruise Line and the like.