Alaska’s embattled Pebble Mine hires former Somalia peacemaker
Shifting seasons
November brought winter like weather to coastal Alaska at last, ending another October of the new-normal. The National Weather Service in Anchorage reported up to four inches of snow turning in places […]
Idit-a-mystery
Iditarod “Saboteur X” – if he or she exists – appears to have had only a few hours to infiltrate a Nome dog yard and dope the team of four-time Iditarod Trail […]
Empire lost
The woman who once thought she could own the news in the north was back in federal Bankruptcy Court in Anchorage on Thursday acting dazed and confused. Gone were the […]
PETA wrong
An investigation by the Matanuska-Susitna Borough into an animal-care complaint filed by a dog there handler has cleared the kennel of four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race champion Dallas Seavey of […]
AK-China Gas Inc.?
Tongues were wagging all over Alaska Tuesday thanks to four words in a Monday update of a Bloomberg News story about President Donald Trump’s planned trade mission to China. The four words? […]
Prelude to war
A news analysis The mayor of Kenai, Alaska is “extremely disappointed” with the Alaska Board of Fisheries, and the mayor of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough less than pleased but “satisfied” with the Board’s big […]
Pipe dream
Only a day after the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation blasted bad Alaska press as the problem threatening construction of the 49th state’s longest-lived pipe dream, a high-profile analyst of global markets dumped […]
Idit-a-war
With Dallas Seavey of Willow, the four-time champion of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, now pushing to overthrow the board of the non-profit organization that runs Alaska’s Last Great Race, one […]
100-foot waves
The 100-foot waves one knowledgeable weather watcher thought might develop south of the Aleutian Islands on Thursday apparently never materialized, but the climatic monster created by the merger of two North Pacific […]