Just when you think politics can’t get any stranger in Alaska, they get stranger. Gov. Bill Walker, who last year tried to stack the Alaska Board of Fisheries with commercial fishermen, on […]
Is this Alaska’s future?

FAIRBANKS — The deep cold of winter had settled in along the Chena River in the days before Christmas, locking the heart of Alaska’s only real Interior city in a deep freeze. […]
Reporting 101/Updated

Alaska Dispatch News Ben Anderson editor has now pointed out that the organization back in September posted copies of the contracts Gov. Bill Walker signed with Art Hackney and Jack Ferguson when […]
Let’s hear the truth

Somewhere the truth exists about a now much-discussed meeting between Alice Rogoff, the owner of Alaska’s largest news organization, and Art Hackney, a consultant hired by Gov. Bill Walker to push the […]
New poll: Alaska ‘sucks’

A Thursday poll of Alaskans found them rating the 49th state the worst place in America to live.
Alaska Fish Board bail out

As if the Alaska Legislature didn’t have enough on its plate with the state budget spinning into a $3.5 billion abyss, there’s now bad news out of the Alaska Board of Fisheries.
The magical $73 salmon

Alaska oil prices have now crept so low it is being reported a commercially caught king salmon is worth more than a barrel of crude oil, but 49th-state fishermen can only dream […]
The tough guy

After the beat down the frozen Iditarod Trail put on Pennsylvanian Tim Hewitt last year, a lesser man would have taken his swollen, frostbit fingers and his red, puffed-up-like-potato feet home, plopped […]
Former Alaska Fish Board member a Montanan?

Below is the Roland Maw story the ADN spiked on Feb. 23, 2015. The website instead ran an earlier, incoherent and now unavailable version of this story that left it unclear why […]