...vary with ability, but for an average player, the odds of bowling a perfect game are 1 in 11,500. Depending on which statistician you talk you, that is rarer than making a hole-in-one in golf. Most professional bowlers might only do it once a year...

...was $35,971, putting the municipality 10th on the list of boroughs and census areas listed by the department. Labor statisticians break the data into 10 employment categories. Natural resources (oil and gas) and mining are two, and within them there...

...percent for the decade. Annual growth has been steady and constant at 5 percent to 6 percent a year, said Fish and Game statistician Mike Mills. Nonresidents fuel all that growth; fishing by Alaskans has declined. Eventually, it appears, crowds become...

...tax Healy coal mine says layoffs may be coming Anchorage mother sentenced for assaulting fifth-grade teacher Statisticians boot 'tinned' salmon out of British shopping basket State officials pick winners in name-the-ferries contest ...

...Anchorage, Caribou Island on Skilak Lake and Soldotna. She spent 16 years with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game as a statistician and as the animator for Pot Roast, the moose puppet on the Fish and Game television program in the late 1960s. After retiring...

...alternative medicine" such as acupuncture and Naturopathy. That's a "loud and clear mandate," said Cecilia Buckley, a statistician with the company. Some 82 percent said they would favor a bond issue to pay for additional expansions at the hospital if...

...the trans-Alaska oil pipeline brought more than 30,000 job-seekers to the young state in the mid-1970s, said state statistician Greg Williams. Many of those workers are now retiring, while a growing number of earlier pioneers also have chosen to stay...