Hoping to protect rural Alaska women from violence, the U.S. House of Representatives wants to establish “Indian Country” in the 49th state and grant Native tribes police powers over non-Natives on what […]
Empowering tribes
Hot, hot, hot
Parts of America’s normally frozen north appear to be on the edge of some sort of time warp wherein the climate months – as opposed to the calendar months – jump from […]
One man’s war
H The Supreme Court of the United States of America has now elevated Alaskan John Sturgeon to the pantheon of those who shaped the character of the freedom-loving 49th state. It only […]
A dog dies
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is now saying it is unclear as to whether a dog that died at the end of the 1,000-mile race across Alaska this year fell victim […]
New age-old
Update: This story was revised on March 26, 2019 to reflect the findings of a gross necropsy on the dog that died in the Iditarod. When Richie Beattie’s dog Oshi died […]
Alaska test
Given that Alaska is as much a state of mind as a state – think long-dead author Jack London’s “Call of the Wild’ which was actually set in the Yukon Territory but […]
Going broke
News analysis Alaska is Alice Rogoff, and if you watched the rise, the fall and the implosion of what was the Alaska Dispatch News, you know how that story ended. […]
Travel meltdown
The March equinox arrived on Wednesday to end the Alaska winter just as the weather appeared to be doing its best to wreck the best of the Alaska spring. Normally this would […]
Know nothin’
A long time has passed since Dick Griffith, a legendary Alaska outdoor adventurer now in his 90s, observed that “you young guys….eat too much and you don’t know nothin’.” As a journalist […]
Grow $$$$$
After listening to a pitch from hatchery advocates on Tuesday, Alaska House Rep. Louise Stutes, R-Alaska, the chair of the Special Committee on Fisheries, came up with a new idea how to solve […]
