UPDATE: This story was updated at 10:47 p.m., June 24, 2016 to include a biography of the staff at MustReadAlaska.com The possibility Alaska Gov. Bill Walker is preparing to declare Prudhoe Bay […]
Gasline financing questioned
Bring our fish home
More than 36,000 pounds of prized Alaska salmon and halibut now sitting in Seattle could be headed north again if the Fairbanks Community Food Bank can raise the money to cover the […]
Jay Hammond’s curse
From somewhere in the hereafter, the late Alaska Gov. Jay Hammond must be watching with interest the spectacle of the moment in the state’s capital. Never could the old Bush Rat have […]
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 […]
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 […]
