Yearly Archives: 2017

  NAMED AFTER WOMAN WHO CO-INVENTED COBOL COMPUTER LANGUAGE Somewhere in the Gulf of Alaska right now is cruising a Navy destroyer that's named after a...

POSSIBLY THE SECOND EARLIEST ASCENT IN HISTORY FOR THE CASSIN RIDGE Two Washington climbers were the first to scale Mount Denali at the outset of...

The House Rules Committee, which is the last stop before bills make it to the House floor for a vote, finally had its first meeting...

It's a wild world of complaint-vs-complaint in the Adventure Capital of Alaska -- Haines. A borough Assembly member lodged a very public complaint against the police...

LARGEST BUDGET IN ANCHORAGE HISTORY The Anchorage Assembly raised property taxes by 5.3 percent on Tuesday night. At the same time, the Assembly passed the largest...

EVEN YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY IS GOING TO BE TAXED  The Senate Majority's State Income Tax Calculator has been used more than 60,000 times in the...

And it happened that two teenagers set fire to a beloved playground structure in Juneau -- while a convention of about 40 fire and arson investigators...

According to three city council members in Homer, Alaska, it's not up to voters to decide if they are "unfit for office." It's up to the...

By WIN GRUENING, SENIOR CONTRIBUTOR As the Alaska Legislature winds down to its 120-day constitutionally set window, most of us are focused on what is happening...

You might not have had the privilege of meeting Little Sister of Jesus  Marie Josephe Brin, unless you spent time in Nome or Little...