When Alaska Dispatch News owner Alice Rogoff cut a complicated deal to transfer her bankrupt newspaper to the Binkley Company a little over a week ago, a couple of pieces […]
Go ask Alice….
Tough neighborhood
The difficult business of trying to take a newspaper through a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization will begin in Anchorage, AK today with a simple task – get the paperboys paid. A newspaper […]
More News trouble
A day before a federal bankruptcy court judge is due to start untangling the finances of Alaska’s largest news organization, a trustee for the debtors owed millions of dollars has raised […]
Alaska’s losing battle
News analysis Bristol Bay – Alaska’s highest profile salmon fishery – had a banner year, and yet everywhere in the global market Alaska salmon fisheries look to be in more and more […]
Heading for winter
As hunters take to the hills for the start of Alaska big-game seasons and kids start getting ready for school, the National Weather Service is warning citizens living in and around the […]
Of bears & humans
While the kindly Canadians of Canmore, Alberta were in July pondering what to do with Bear 148 – the grizzly who likes people too much – the practical citizens of Anchorage, Alaska […]
Bad news salmon
On the day before Juneau, Alaska chef Lionel Uddipa was crowned the King of American Seafood at the Great American Seafood Cook-off in New Orleans on the Gulf of Mexico, the worst of […]
Yes, no, maybe
Only days after over-seeing the deaths of nearly 90,000 Upper Cook Inlet coho salmon in two commercial drift gillnet openings in the belief the coho run was late and strong, fishery […]
Where are the coho?
The bad news came in triplicate for Little Susitna River guide Andy Couch on Friday. First there was the daily coho salmon enumeration from the Little Su weir. The 39 fish […]
The heat is on
Get out the sunbrella and chill the beer, the National Weather Service is warning that global warming is returning to Alaska’s largest city. A special weather statement from the federal agency today warned […]
