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 […]
AK Connection?
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 […]
Global stew
An ocean circulation phenomenon known as La Nina is brewing in the tropics west of Central America, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) suspects it might, maybe, kinda, could bring Alaska […]
Selling AK toys
Anchorage’s two biggest outdoor stores are now one, but what it means for the future is unclear. Bass Pro and Cabela’s on Monday announced they’d closed a $5 billion deal for […]
Journalism’s problem
Commentary Once the artists of their day painted on the walls of caves, and art was worth nothing. This is the problem journalism faces in the Age of the Internet. Most journalism […]
AK’s got gas
Alaska’s sputtering and stalling natural gas pipeline project appears to roaring forward again no matter what the media might be reporting. Just weeks after Alaska Gov. Bill Walker told the Alaska Resource […]
News evolves
In the Age of the Internet, the power of the press – an invisible force that once put fear into politicians – is fading fast in Alaska where the state’s largest newspaper […]
Cat tales
In the wake of an unconfirmed sighting of a mountain lion on the Anchorage Hillside, it is worth revisiting the history of cougar reports in and around Alaska’s largest city. Wildlife biologists […]
Phantom cougar
A mountain lion is on the loose in Alaska’s largest city. Or so says the internet. The media involved is social, but it’s still called “media.”
