The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute has been freed from a state hiring freeze so it can advertise for a new domestic marketing director to work in Seattle. The starting salary is listed […]
Unhooked from hiring freeze
Barrow under siege
The apocalypse is at the door of Alaska’s and America’s northernmost community. You can read about it on the internets. “A stroll along one of Barrow’s handful of roads shows just […]
Political shark bait
First nobody wanted to take on incumbent Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, and now one big-name player is firmly in the Senate race with another making noises about running a write-in campaign in […]
Oh no, no snow
Winter-loving Alaskans clinging to La Nina dreams of a winter better than the Seattle-soggy nightmare of a year ago best ignore the latest report from the national Climate Prediction Center. Spoiler alert! […]
Another “magic bus” rescue
The National Park Service was at it again in the Alaska Interior on Monday, chasing after yet another adventurer missing on a trip to the “Magic Bus” made famous by actor-turned-director Sean […]
Alaska’s moral compass
Commentary What is Alaska becoming? The state that penned Alaska’s Clear and Equitable Share (ACES), a plan to use big taxes to maximize the people’s share of the wealth flowing out of […]
A new Iditarod distance?
The exact length of Alaska’s Iditarod Trail has been the subject of debate for years now. The distance from Anchorage to Nome started at more than 1,100 miles, shrunk to 900 miles […]
Not moose, not murder
Injuries from a moose collision and foul play have both been ruled out in the strange death of 50-year-old Connie Segevan, an Anchorage woman sadly involved in one of the oddest news […]
Why do salmon die?
This is the season of death along the Alaska coast. In rivers, creeks and streams from near the Arctic Circle to the southern tip of the Inside Passage, salmon are dying […]
Not-so-secret secret ballot
The reason the village of Newtok in Western Alaska had no voting booths during this year’s primary election was that the booths were being held hostage in the Newtok tribal office, according to […]
