King Cove-Cold Bay road returns to center stage. From: Anchorage Daily News (Anchorage, AK) | Date: June 11, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2007 Anchorage Daily News. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Kevin Diaz

Jun. 11--WASHINGTON -- It's only a short hop by plane from the remote Alaska Peninsula fishing outpost of King Cove to the World War II-era air field at Cold Bay, Alaska's third-longest airstrip.

If only the weather would cooperate, which much of the time it doesn't. Eleven have died on the treacherous air route since 1979.

Local villagers, searching for an overland route, have long been thwarted in their quest for a road -- not b...