What was once one of the crown jewels of Central Alaska tourism could be making a comeback after more than a decade of idleness and a slow but steady drift toward ghost-town […]
Arctic hot spot
The Arctic man
The Hoodoo Mountains of Eastern Alaska have been good to Anchorage middle-school teacher and Arctic Man Eric Heil. Once he owned a piece of them. Not in the literal sense, but […]
Ban scary
Commentary The United States is a country where appearance matters – matters a lot; a country where fears sometimes run wild; and a country today caught up in a pre-occupation with self. […]
Haeg’s hell
To understand why a small mob of law enforcement officers converged on the Alaska state courthouse in downtown Anchorage Monday to head off what looked to be a simple hearing heading rapidly […]
All-ahead full
A Walker administration request to fast-track environmental studies on an 800-mile gas pipeline from Alaska’s North Slope to tidewater at Cook Inlet could backfire and spawn national opposition that slows the project, […]
Fix the news
Commentary If you’re reading this and you have a social media account of some sort, you hold the power to change the news. So if you think journalism is broken […]
Journalism’s problem
Commentary Once the artists of their day painted on the walls of caves, and art was worth nothing. This is the problem journalism faces in the Age of the Internet. Most journalism […]
Cooler warming?
Giant larvaceans and a strange interaction between high-north methane and carbon dioxide are now underlining the complexities of trying to predict climate change. “Good news about climate change is especially […]
Copper River disaster
This is a developing story No one seems to have any idea what sort of astronomical price a rare and iconic Copper River king salmon from Alaska might demand when the commercial […]
We want fake news
Politifact and Facebook have now spent six weeks chasing the phantom of “fake news” and found the problem inherent in the human species. People, by and large, are prone to believe what […]
