Just when Alaska’s largest city was looking all White Christmas, a powerful North Pacific storm slammed into the urban underbelly of the state to start the month of December off with unseasonably […]
Wet Christmas
Up is down
With annual returns of prized Chinook salmon to Alaska’s fabled Copper River creeping steadily downward, the state Board of Fisheries is meeting in Valdez to consider reducing the spawning goal for the […]
Killer roads
A 22-year-old University of Alaska Fairbanks student who stopped his car along the George Parks Highway to help a snowmobiler with problems is dead as a result of one of the 49th […]
Idiocracy
Commentary Sometimes, if you have spent your life in journalism, it is hard to look at some of what passes for reportage these days without being forced to ponder whether a once-valued […]
Cold kills
Update: This story has been updated to reflect Keith Stephens’ condition. A Willow man is in a coma in a hospital in Alaska’s largest city after apparently slipping on snow-covered and icy […]
Arctic oil ‘boued
Once more there is talk of oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), and once more there is worry of a threat to the Porcupine caribou herd which calves in […]
Seaveys had abuse
Despite earlier claims that everything was hunky-dory this fall at the Willow kennel of Dallas Seavey, a four-time champion of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, it has now emerged […]
All-ahead full
A Walker administration request to fast-track environmental studies on an 800-mile gas pipeline from Alaska’s North Slope to tidewater at Cook Inlet could backfire and spawn national opposition that slows the project, […]
Old fogies
News analysis Alaska appears to be weathering its current recession much better than the big crash of the 1980s, according to the latest figures from the state Department of Labor, but […]
Halfback
Update: The word is now official. The Alaska Dispatch News is history. The Anchorage Daily News is back. The first of the new Anchorage Daily News newspapers are begin landing on city […]
