Alaska Sen. David Wilson says he has met with the reporter he allegedly slapped earlier this week, and they have patched things up. After the Thursday meeting in his Juneau office, Wilson […]
Slap talks
The slap
Commentary As a working journalist, it’s hard to avoid feeling sorry for Alaska Dispatch News reporter Nat Herz, and the box into which he has now fallen. Herz is the reporter who […]
Capital bubbles
Commentary The gridlocked Alaska Legislature has a problem, but it’s not what most Alaskans think, although then again in a way it is sort of what most Alaskans think. The Legislature’s problem […]
Hatchery plan stalls
A Homer, Alaska area salmon hatchery caught operating without a federal Clean Water Act permit won’t be moving its operations to Kachemak Bay anytime soon. The private, non-profit Cook Inlet Aquaculture […]
Journalism in decay
The race to the bottom appears to be over. CareerCast.com, a website that ranks jobs in the U.S., now puts journalism at the bottom of the list of worst jobs […]
Strange things done
What a week in Alaska journalism. Just when you think the weirdness has gone beyond weird, things get weirder. If only Robert Service, the bard of the north, were still alive to […]
An act of goodwill
Eight, middle-school boys and their coach from the small village of Tanana in remote Interior Alaska were Thursday night in a van roaring down the Richardson Highway bound for the Valdez Hooping […]
Official serial killer
Eight months after linking five Anchorage shootings to a single handgun, Anchorage Police have finally confirmed there was a serial killer on the prowl in Alaska’s largest city last summer. The […]
Sled-dog summer
This story was updated and corrected on April 27, 2017 The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is long over, but “Sled Dogs” the movie lives on with director Fern Levitt showing no […]
Crowd-sourced news
Anyone can be a reporter, and it was only a matter of time before news organizations recognized the same and tapped the reporting power of the masses. At the forefront now is […]
