A new entity has slipped into the interwebs to challenge Alaska’s established news media for the attention of your eyeballs. Alaska Banner.com is an attractive website with a masthead featuring the big […]
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New election mess?
Alaska’s strange election season of 2016 got even stranger on Friday with the website Must Read Alaska reporting a state Senate candidate might have vaulted onto the November ballot despite his failure […]
The broken marriage
Commentary At some point someone has to ask what went wrong with what was once a symbiotic relationship between Alaska and Big Oil. Was it the creation of the oil-fueled Permanent Fund […]
Bear steals lunch
Young Seward resident injured in encounter This much is known for certain about a Wednesday close encounter between 18-year-old Seward, Alaska resident Kyle Hubbard and a black bear: Hubbard has a broken […]
Pressing changes
Regime shift, building sale; same old alt-weekly BY MATT TUNSETH For craigmedred.news The new boss at the Anchorage Press says readers shouldn’t notice much difference on the pages of the paper despite the looming […]
New AK bear attacks
UPDATED NOV. 4 – Authorities in Soldotna are now admitting they’re skeptical of a report of a bear mauling near the confluence of the Kenai and Funny rivers earlier this week. A […]
Iditarod nightmare
Trailer for Iditarod-critical movie now on YouTube A rumored take-down documentary on the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race hasn’t hit the big screen yet, but the trailer is out and the […]
Green Halloween
The Anchorage Hillside temperature at 7 p.m. on Halloween was 47 degrees, two degrees down from a daily high that fell just a degree short of the record for the date. Halloween’s […]
The bear fighter
When the grizzly bear came barreling out of the dark to grab Ronn Hemstock by the shoulder, lift him wholly off the ground, and shake him like a golden retriever playing with […]
Iditarod non-cheats
Commentary Hard to believe, but the most honest people in American sport are all a dither about fears modern-day communications might lead to cheating in Alaska’s most famous sports competition. Yes, we’re […]
