From his home in rainy Ketchikan near the southern end of the Alaska Panhandle, former Alaska Commissioner of Public Safety Dick Burton watches the slow but steady tribalization of the 49th […]
Alaska divided
Armed America
Most Alaskans live in neighborhoods full of guns. Should they be afraid?
Pebble rising?
Conservative talk-show host Rick Rydell reported in line for EPA’s top job in Alaska
Yukon manhunt
Aboard a makeshift, homemade raft, the suspect in a string of summer arsons along the Yukon River slipped past the village of Anvik after a brief, Thursday encounter with locals who told […]
Back in the game
Less than a month after leaving Alaska’s largest news organization behind in federal Bankruptcy Court, the estranged wife of billionaire financier David Rubenstein is hard at work rebranding herself on the global stage. […]
Warming’s peril
The residents of the northernmost city in the United States are cleaning up in the wake of a fall storm that came roaring across a strangely ice-free Arctic Ocean last week to […]
The feds arrive
Both economically and biologically, the commercial fisheries of Alaska’s Cook Inlet are imprecise and archaic. And now come federal regulators to try to apply Information Age precision to this chaos of […]
AK Connection?
This is a developing story Despite widespread reports that the shooter in a horrific Las Vegas massacre that has left up to 58 people dead “had a hunting license from Alaska,” authorities here […]
No whales now
Twenty-nine-years ago, Utqiaġvik was Barrow, Alaska, and winter ice was forming fast on this day. Words cannot really describe how different conditions now. On Friday, you could have surfed the Arctic Ocean off […]
Old News new?
Fresh out of bankruptcy, the Alaska Dispatch News appears to be getting ready to distance itself from former and failed publisher Alice Rogoff at the same time she is making a bid […]
