Alice Rogoff, the rich lady who moved north with visions of publishing greatness only to buy and bankrupt Alaska’s largest and most influential newspaper, is now trying to negotiate her way […]
Rogoff settling?
Gone guy
The whining, can you hear it? The screech and the wail, A man can’t help but fear it; It screams of time to bail From the car-filled Chugach bowl with its ugly, […]
Everyday journalism
If Facebook = journalism = Facebook, why does the world need journalism? This might be the number one issue facing journalism today, but it’s unclear whether it is recognized by all journalism businesses. […]
Back to court
The state of Alaska is refusing to let go the former member of the Alaska Board of Fisheries accused of being an AKINO – Alaskan In Name Only. Three times now, Roland […]
Fog of Iditarod
As the story came to be told and grew, there was a lone hero because stories are best that way. Reality is more complex and sometimes confused by the fog of war. […]
News fraud
The publisher and owner of Arctic Today – which bills itself as the unrivaled source for “international news and perspective on a changing Arctic” – has been accused of fraud in a […]
Iditarod dog dies
This story has been updated Kotzebue musher Katherine Keith pulled into Nome Thursday night to bring to a close a musher’s year from hell. First there was a dead dog near […]
Last Great Mess II
Almost 11 months after the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race received a letter reporting on doping in the 2017 version of the 1,000-mile run to Nome, race organisers finally released the unabridged document […]
Seavey fire
First it was the heartache of a doped dog team in Nome, and now it’s a fire burning down the workshop of four-time Iditarod champ Dallas Seavey, formerly from Willow now from […]
Iditarod meltdown
The most tumultuous year in the roller-coasting, 45-year history of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is stumbling toward the March 3 start of Alaska’s biggest sporting event with no end to […]
