Most of the remaining mushers in the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race were on the trail north from the historic mining town of Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada on Friday with […]
Down and out
Record kill
Snow was falling on Anchorage on Monday, and the last couple black bears still roaming the urban edge of the nearly 2,000-square-mile municipality were thought be headed at last to dens where […]
The devil’s details
In an Anchorage court room on Tuesday, the counsel for failed Alaska newspaper publisher Alice Rogoff put on a masterful display of lawyering wrapped in a demonstration of why so many Americans […]
Shed a tear
The staid facade to which 67-year-old, millionaire publisher Alice Rogoff has clung through more than a year of off-and-on court appearances in the wake of her bankrupting Alaska’s largest news organization finally […]
Eyeball values
The former owner of the bankrupt and gone Alaska Dispatch News/ADN.com took the stand in Anchorage Superior Court on Wednesday to testify under oath that the former editor of the 49th state’s […]
Dead newspapers
The legal faceoff between former Alaska Dispatch News publisher Alice Rogoff – the one-time Washington, D.C. socialite who plotted to own the media landscape of the 49th state before bankrupting […]
Dispatched
First in a series The story of the rise, the fall and the tragedy of the media empire former Alaska Dispatch News owner Alice Rogoff and company president Tony Hopfinger […]
Copy and ink
They laid Jim Macknicki to rest on Thursday. He was a man who spent most of his adult life doing the most thankless job in journalism with devotion and integrity. I knew him […]
Iditarod dog dies
This story has been updated Kotzebue musher Katherine Keith pulled into Nome Thursday night to bring to a close a musher’s year from hell. First there was a dead dog near […]
Devolution
Commentary On the day the Women’s March hit Alaska, a 49th-state journalist popped a photo of demonstrators up on Instagram with this description: “We hate Donald Trump up North too.” In the […]
