The implosion of Alaska’s largest newspaper is old news now, but the story of the rise and fall of Alice Rogoff and her dream to create a media empire in the 49th […]
The fall of Rogoff
C-minus health
Alaska leads the nation in the rates of violent crime and the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia, according to the latest edition of “America’s Health Rankings” from the United Health Foundation, but there […]
An open letter
Commentary Dear Alice Rogoff, old friend: Finally it is over. You are free of David Rubenstein at last. It is sad when relationships end even when it is better that way. […]
A new green land
With the Arctic recording its second warmest year on record, despite global temperatures moderating slightly, the U.S. National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (N0AA) on Tuesday warned that the polar ice cap “shows no […]
Xmas blow
The climate-change Grinch did its best to steal the Christmas spirit from the tiny and remote, Alaska fishing community of Cordova, population 2,200, on Sunday. Screaming into town with hurricane-force winds […]
Explainin’ the rainin’
California afire and Alaska awash because of The Triple R?
Dog rescue
The August Foundation for Alaska’s Racing Dogs, an organization dedicated to finding homes for retired Alaska huskies, is calling on the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to do more to ensure the […]
Snow bomb
Nearly a week after a massive snowstorm squatted over Eastern Alaska and unloaded, power remains out in parts of the Copper River basin, and the Richardson Highway to Valdez is just being […]
Rogoff divorces
This is a developing story Creditors of the bankrupt and now gone Alaska Dispatch News might still be out a couple million dollars, but it appears former Dispatch owner and publisher […]
Couch potatoes
If the latest data out from Strava, the global activity tracking website, is to be believed, Alaskans need to pull themselves off the couch and get moving. Either that, or they need […]
