When Alaska Dispatch News owner Alice Rogoff cut a complicated deal to transfer her bankrupt newspaper to the Binkley Company a little over a week ago, a couple of pieces […]
Go ask Alice….
Lost in Alaska
Once more a visitor to the north has gone missing in the Alaska wilds. This time, according to rangers at Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, it is 34-year-old Nick Larsen from […]
Newspaper hangs on
With time clicking down on a plan offered by a fifth-generation Alaska family to save the state’s largest newspaper, a gaggle of lawyers representing a small mob of creditors were back […]
Thank you Alice
Commentary With Alaska’s largest newspaper today bankrupt and frightfully close to the verge of disappearing forever from the scene, there are a lot of people lining up to bash owner and publisher […]
News lives for now
Anchorage’s paper boys and motor carriers will roll for at least another week or two. After a twisted, tangled, three-hour journey through the finances of the near-broke Alaska Dispatch News, federal […]
Newspaper death watch
This is a developing story The prospective new owners of the Alaska Dispatch News are warning a federal bankruptcy court judge that the state’s largest newspaper and news site – ADN.com – […]
Tough neighborhood
The difficult business of trying to take a newspaper through a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization will begin in Anchorage, AK today with a simple task – get the paperboys paid. A newspaper […]
The late arrivals
The rains came to Alaska’s Matanuska-Susitna rivers valley over the weekend. The water in local creeks and rivers rose. And the coho salmon, notorious for sprinting from the oceans to the mountains […]
More News trouble
A day before a federal bankruptcy court judge is due to start untangling the finances of Alaska’s largest news organization, a trustee for the debtors owed millions of dollars has raised […]
‘Vital to all Alaska’
Is a newspaper so vital to a community that to keep it alive the people who labored in good faith to build it should be left to shoulder the price when it […]
