On the advice of the state’s attorney general, Alaska’s civil rights agency quietly deleted language promising equal protections for LGBTQ Alaskans against most categories of discrimination, and it began refusing to investigate complaints.
Ian Dickson
The dark origins of Valentine’s Day
The origins of this festival of candy and cupids are actually dark, bloody — and a bit muddled.
Cleanup continues at Kodiak spaceport after January rocket crash
January’s failed launch came after a summer of complaints from locals over closures to public recreation areas near the Spaceport complex.
Ketchikan schools, facing deep staffing cuts, look to Legislature for help
Ketchikan’s school district is looking at cutting about 15% of its workforce.
For once, clearing skies in Juneau pull back curtain on brilliant aurora
Many who passed up sleep to see the aurora posted images to social media showing intense green waves, purple spikes and ribbons of deep red dancing over the mountains and Gastineau Channel.
How a Juneau subdivision came to be at ‘unacceptable’ risk for a destructive avalanche
Before there was a Behrends neighborhood, the avalanche path that goes through it saw slides big enough to level forests. It will happen again someday.