Is it real, or is it “reality” news? You know, reality news as in “reality TV,” as in “it could be real, you know,” even if it probably isn’t. Can you say […]
Reality news
Alaska’s everyday guns
c I walked up to a policeman yesterday carrying one of the world’s most powerful handguns in a holster in my right hand. He noticed. How could he not? But he didn’t […]
Successful Denali rescue
O Only three days after failure in a heroic effort to save the life of Denali climber Masayuki Ikeda at 18,400 feet on Denali, National Park Service helicopter pilot Andy Hermansky is […]
Dispatch duo BFF no more
In one of the sadder moments in the history of modern journalism in Alaska, Tony Hopfinger, the founder and former editor of AlaskaDispatch.com, has sued former business partner and good friend Alice […]
Whale of an AK ride
A group of predominantly German tourists got a better than hoped for Alaska wildlife sightseeing cruise on Wednesday when they found themselves up close and personal with a humpback whale. “It was […]
Dividing America
The terrorists are winning. Leave no doubt about that when the New York Times, the country’s premiere news organization, editorializes in this way:
Life and death’s thin line
UPDATED with climber’s identity. High on Alaska’s Mount Denali, people are so close to human limits that sometimes not even fast and heroic rescue efforts can save them. Denali National Park and […]
Online only – a coming trend?
Twenty-five years after jumping into the newspaper publishing business, Homer Tribune owner Jane Pascall is abandoning print and dumping all her marbles into the tubes. The weekly newspaper in the community of […]
Deadly tech?
Alaska adventurer Tim Kelley has a theory as to what might have happened to 26-year-old Nephi Soper, whose body was found floating on a sheet of ice on Tanaina Lake in the […]
Alaska: It can kill you
Updated: June 13, 2016 If ever there was a week to illustrate the potential dangers that lurk on the very edge of civilization’s foothold in Alaska, this was it. Four confirmed dead […]
