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Journalists resign after Carpenter Media censors coverage to appease GOP lawmaker

News Matt Acuña Buxton -
Homer Republican Rep. Sarah Vance got what she wanted, and now the Kenai Peninsula has four fewer working journalists.
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Dunleavy vetoes bill that would have funded K-12 reading and jobs programs

Education Matt Acuña Buxton -
Alaska Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy issued his ninth veto of the 2025-2026 Legislature, blocking a bipartisan bill that would have extended corporate income taxes to online businesses to fund reading and job-training programs at public schools. Senate Bill 113,...
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Opinion: Treg Taylor isn’t getting the best reception his money (or the state’s) can buy

Editorial Matt Acuña Buxton -
Alaska’s former Attorney General Treg Taylor officially joined the race for governor last week, launching his campaign off a six-plus-month runway filled with profile-raising, state-paid appearances and years of signing onto virtue-signalling lawsuits against Biden. Leaving behind a legacy of...
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Alaska GOP Rep. Vance threatens boycott of Homer News over Charlie Kirk coverage

Local news Matt Acuña Buxton -
This story has been updated to more accurately reflect Kirk's quote on how Black women like U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson "do not have brain processing power to be taken seriously.” Extreme-right Republican Rep. Sarah Vance this...
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Alaskans rally as Tongass protections face another rollback

Environment Rachel Levy -
“It's like walking into one of the most beautiful cathedrals you'll ever see in the world.” That’s how President Joel Jackson of the Organized Village of Kake described the Tongass National Forest at last week’s Roadless Rally in Juneau. But...
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The Alaska Governor’s Race Power Rankings: Tregnancy Announcement

Elections Matt Acuña Buxton -
And then there were… 11.
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Trail Blazers: Meg Inokuma

Arts and Culture Emily Sullivan -
Though she’s left an impressive mark on Alaska’s running community, Meg Inokuma isn’t  focused on competition or speed.
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Violent racial threats are on the rise in Alaska, the NAACP Anchorage warns

Local news Matt Acuña Buxton -
The Anchorage branch of the NAACP said its members and their families have been targeted.
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Dunleavy administration asks US Supreme Court to decide the future of subsistence fishing in Alaska

Courts James Brooks, Alaska Beacon -
After losing an appeal, the state is asking the high justices to decide a decades-old dispute over Alaska fishing rights.
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OPINION: Downing’s exit from Must Read Alaska was almost noble

Opinion Matt Acuña Buxton -
One of the things that I’ll invariably bring up when talking shop about Alaska’s media landscape over a few too many beers is that for all of the vitriol and hyperventilating partisan outrage that she spread over the decade...
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