Tag: alaska

“’I think if the town survives, the newspaper will survive. I think we’re so intertwined. It’s not going to be one without the other. Our fates are going to be the same.'”

“The way we die is changing. So, too, is the way we think about dying — and about the opportunity, even the right, to die at a time and place of our choosing.”

Cody Dalton Eyre, a 20-year-old Alaskan Native, was having a mental health crisis on Christmas Eve, 2017 when his mother called 911 for help. So why did police officers end up shooting and killing him?

When troopers finally do arrive, violent offenders just hide until they leave.

To this day, only Elizabeth Pierce knows why she defrauded partners and investors by forging contract signatures.

Chia-Chia Lin talks about the wildness of domestic spaces and writing her novel “The Unpassing” through the early months of motherhood.

Tracing the origins of humanity in the Alaskan wilderness.

At the end of July, no one in Alaska will be able to “Make it a Blockbuster Night!”

Here are the voices of the Alaskans threatened by climate change.

Marissa Weiss explores life in Alaska: The cold, the dark, the ice, the 3,000 miles between her and her parents in Maryland.

Anti-whaling activists target an Arctic subsistence hunter after a whale hunt gets media coverage.

Shishmaref, an island village north of Nome, Alaska, is the front line for global warming’s effects on rising sea levels.

In one Alaskan town, the bone pile is a bounty for hungry polar bears and enterprising tour guides.

At ESPNW, Matt Crossman profiles Katherine Keith, a musher and Ironman athlete who overcame grief to win Rookie of the Year, placing seventh in the Yukon Quest, a 1,000-mile dog sled race.

I would scan the commercials for every tiny detail about what life was like when you lived somewhere where there was a McDonald’s: sunshine, happy music, food wrapped up like presents in special papers and boxes, cups that came with lids and straws. Straws! People in the real world ate food in brightly colored packages […]

For our latest Longreads Member Pick, we’re excited to share early access to a new story by journalist Eva Holland, to be published next week by Pacific Standard. “The Peacemaker” tells the story of Schaeffer Cox, the 30-year-old activist and founder of the Alaska Peacemakers Militia who was sentenced last year to 26 years in […]