As of today – with Dr. Al Gross trailing incumbent Alaska Republic Sen. Dan Sullivan by 61,000 votes to 119,000 votes – the independent candidate needs to win about three out of […]
The optimist
BP’s gas play
BP is going big on liquified natural gas (LNG), only not in Alaska. Less than a month after the London-based petroleum giant announced it had found a way to extricate itself from […]
The looking glass
Summer has come to Alaska and with it the annual flood of Outside writers and reporters to pontificate on what is wrong with the 49th state or probe its weighty environmental issues. […]
Car-nage
PINCKNEY, Mich. – One doesn’t have to spend much time on the roads and bike paths in the Lower 48 to be starkly reminded of Alaska’s biggest myth – the supposed bounty […]
Indian country
News analysis Just in time for the political season in Alaska, the administration of President Donald Trump has withdrawn and is reviewing a Department of the Interior decision on lands-into-trust that […]
AK losing ANWR $
This story has been updated to reflect Rep. Don Young’s role. The 49th state’s share of anticipated revenues from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is on the verge of being slashed […]
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 […]
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 […]
