The National Park Service’s latest report on the economic bang Alaska gets from the state’s 54 million acres of parks is out, and the number is what President Donald Trump might call […]
Hug a tourist
Cold, dark and dying
December in Alaska is always a grim time of year buoyed only temporarily by holiday cheer. The shortening of the days is impossible to avoid. Nine-to-5ers can go from home to […]
Down, down, down
Alaska’s largest city is leading the bust as the once-booming economy of the 49th state collapses in the wake of falling global oil prices, according to new report just out from the […]
The Gov strikes back
In the always entertaining world of Alaska politics, the Alaska business community has given Gov. Bill Walker a grade of “D” for his past year’s performance in office, and Walker has in […]
The recession arrives
No one has as yet declared the state of Alaska officially on the list of governments fighting recessions, and it is unlikely anyone will. But a top state economist Tuesday admitted the […]
Grow Alaska how?
THIS STORY WAS UPDATED ON SEPT. 28, 2016 While Alaska Gov. Bill Walker was in Asia chasing a natural gas pipeline dream last week, Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott journeyed to the small […]
Alaska’s real problems
Mareesa Nicosia is a reporter from New York who journeyed to the tiny, Alaska village of Newtok late this summer to write about global warming because global warming is trending. Newtok is […]
Is this Alaska’s future?
FAIRBANKS — The deep cold of winter had settled in along the Chena River in the days before Christmas, locking the heart of Alaska’s only real Interior city in a deep freeze. […]
