Despite an average, monthly temperature running more than 11 degrees above normal in Alaska’s largest city, National Weather Service forecasters are predicting an Anchorage tradition could continue: Halloween might be greeted by […]
White Halloween?
Alaska crossroads
From Kokhanok on Iliamna Lake in the heart of the land of opposition to Alaska’s Pebble Mine, 58-year-old Gary Nielsen has a unique perspective on the simmering war over salmon habitat that […]
What people read
The best story ever written for the Alaska Dispatch, an online new site that flourished in Alaska for only a handful of years, never won a prize, but it took on a […]
AK leads way to #1!
The annual report from the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission is out and the United States, led by Alaska, is the 2017 world leader in hatchery-salmon ranching. Almost 1.9 billion immature salmon […]
Rage war
Anger has become the currency of social media. This is not something new. Scientists at Beihang University in China identified and then documented the phenomenon on Weibo, a Chinese version of Twitter, a […]
NYT nyet
A New York Times reporting error reached all the way to Alaska last week where Israel Payton, a member of the Alaska Board of Fisheries, had to explain what wasn’t. The case […]
Hidden story
One thing nearly all politicians share in common is this: They’re all about transparency until it’s time to be transparent. Here was Alaska Gov. Bill Walker four years ago in his […]
A new season
The green, green grass of October is marking the development of a Brave New Season for the residents of Alaska’s urban core. In a land that usually transitions rapidly from summer […]
American grievance
Who and what are you? C’mon, it’s the question of the day, isn’t it? Who are you and what aggrieved group does that place you in? Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has gone […]
Win for AK hatcheries
Before a room packed with commercial fishermen angry they might lose profits from catches of hatchery salmon, the Alaska Board of Fisheries on Tuesday turned back a proposal to cap or […]
