Fresh out of bankruptcy, the Alaska Dispatch News appears to be getting ready to distance itself from former and failed publisher Alice Rogoff at the same time she is making a bid […]
Old News new?
Norway not
Commentary Norway’s version of the Alaska Permanent Fund hit the $1 trillion mark this week. That’s $1,000 billion, or about 16 times the $61.2 billion the state of Alaska is […]
Polar bear bull
Little did wildlife biologist James Wilder understand the hype surrounding bear attacks and climate change when he agreed to serve as lead author on a scientific paper examining polar bear attacks on […]
Killer Tweets
Commentary With the national media and President Donald J. Trump engaged in World Twitter War I (WTW I), with the Alaska media being led around by media releases, and with social media […]
Oil’s upside
News analysis On the 40th anniversary of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), it might be time to consider the full implications of a study documenting huge increases in the lifespans of northern […]
Good news Alaska
Rural Alaska might be plagued by economic woes and high suicide rates, but there is good news coming out of a national study on life expectancy published Monday in the Journal of the […]
Alaska deep freeze
What a difference a year makes in the far north. Just as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was releasing a report listing 2016 as the warmest year in Alaska’s 92-year recorded […]
More bad gas news
While Alaska Gov. Bill Walker and his entourage were in Japan this week riding out an earthquake in a luxury hotel that had to be kept secret for “security reasons,” hopes […]
Alaska’s deadly waters
In the remote northeast corner of the 19-million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, on the far side of the northernmost mountain range on the North American content long removed from any hint of […]
Saved by a warmer Arctic?
