The Valdez Star - Serving Prince William Sound and Copper River Basin

Looking back on a year gone by has its ups and downs, but we thought it would be more fun to look more at the “ups” that were and write about some of our favorite Valdez happenings from 2012, or...

Fire guts storage building An early morning fire Dec. 20, gutted a storage building on the Harris Sand & Gravel property on Airport Rd. according to the Valdez Fire Dept. “The cause of the fire is...

Alaska was once the setting for an environmental shift so dramatic it forced people to evacuate the entire North Slope, according to Michael Kunz, an archaeologist with the Bureau of Land Management. About 10,000 years ago, a group of hunting people...