A new billboard campaign suggests tourists take a trip to Alaska before it's too late. The billboards, displayed in Seattle, Los Angeles and Minneapolis, largely suggest "Alaska B4UDIE'' - short for, Alaska, before you die. The Alaska Travel Industry Association launched the monthlong, $180,000 campaign Monday.

The Alaska Zoo plans to use a 16,000-pound treadmill specifically built for its overweight elephant Maggie. Zoo director Tex Edwards is optimistic she can get the more than 4-ton animal to use the machine.

Personal style and the postal service do not go hand in hand. Postal clerk, Steve Adams, learned this the hard way when he was banned from wearing colorful ties with his uniform.

Scientists have discovered a track from a three-toed dinosaur said to be about 70 million years old, in the Denali national Park, in Alaska. According to an Associated Press report, a University of Alaska Fairbanks student first discovered the footprint on June 27, while taking a geology field course.