What a week in Alaska journalism. Just when you think the weirdness has gone beyond weird, things get weirder. If only Robert Service, the bard of the north, were still alive to […]
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An act of goodwill
Eight, middle-school boys and their coach from the small village of Tanana in remote Interior Alaska were Thursday night in a van roaring down the Richardson Highway bound for the Valdez Hooping […]
Official serial killer
Eight months after linking five Anchorage shootings to a single handgun, Anchorage Police have finally confirmed there was a serial killer on the prowl in Alaska’s largest city last summer. The […]
Sled-dog summer
This story was updated and corrected on April 27, 2017 The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is long over, but “Sled Dogs” the movie lives on with director Fern Levitt showing no […]
Crowd-sourced news
Anyone can be a reporter, and it was only a matter of time before news organizations recognized the same and tapped the reporting power of the masses. At the forefront now is […]
On courage
Courage is the rarest of human traits. It is so rare that American journalists, who work in a business where courage is most extremely rare, have a bad habit of hanging the […]
Stupid AK stunts
Commentary Every Alaskan tells a story, don’t they? Every Alaskan has a tale about that day; that day they really did stupid in the wild or on the edge of the wild […]
The NIMBY state
Before scientists in Alaska ever got a chance to study what might have been the strangest of all hydroelectric projects – one that could benefit salmon – it died in the […]
Hug a tourist
The National Park Service’s latest report on the economic bang Alaska gets from the state’s 54 million acres of parks is out, and the number is what President Donald Trump might call […]
Media cavalry charge
Local news help is on its way to Alaska. The Poynter Institute – “a global leader in journalism” – Thursday announced it had picked “21 local news organizations that will participate in […]