TAPS faces new challenges on its 40th anniversary

To say that Alaska depends on oil is a gross understatement. Oil revenue makes up 90 percent of the state’s budget, which lately, has been billions short. That’s because oil production is declining rapidly.
Tuesday is the 40th anniversary of the Trans-Alaska pipeline or TAPS.
Eight-hundred miles of pipeline pump life into Alaska’s economy. Forty years ago, it put a rough and tumble state and its people on the map. Diane Benson was just 19 when she bid on a truck driving jo