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Trail Blazers: Dustin Newman

To the 27-year-old boat builder, paddling a kayak serves as a means to renew a healthy relationship to the waters that have sustained his people for millennia.

Murkowski calls for reversal of cuts to critical low-income energy program, Sullivan doesn’t

Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is calling out the Trump administration for its haphazard cuts to a critical program that thousands of Alaskans rely on.

Oyster Farms: A Step Towards Diversifying Alaska’s Aquaculture Scene

For most around Juneau, a ride out the road is the closest thing to a road trip our town has to offer.

The last skipper in Ouzinkie: How Gulf of Alaska villages lost their Native fishing fleets

A permitting system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more profitable. But over the last 50 years, it has hollowed out many Indigenous coastal villages where residents no longer can earn a living by harvesting salmon.

Murkowski calls Greenland an ‘ally, not an asset’ as Trump fixation deepens

Over the weekend, President Donald Trump renewed his brazen call for the United States to buy or seize Greenland for its critical natural resources.

Oil and gas lease sale in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge draws no bids

Gwich’in and environmental opponents celebrate the results, while state officials expect the incoming Trump administration to make it easier to drill in the refuge.

AIDEA made its $50 million gasline study pledge before getting legislative approval

The Alaska Gasline Development Corporation can’t find a private company willing to pay $50 million for the final design and engineering work on a proposed gas pipeline unless there is a pledge to get that money back from the state.

Trump’s plan to revert Denali to Mount McKinley name irks Alaskans

The president-elect’s intention to scrap the traditional Athabascan name reopens a longstanding debate over what to call North America’s tallest peak.

The Scrubber Loophole in Alaska’s Cruise Industry

Concerns over Juneau’s relationship to the cruise ship industry have been on the rise in recent months. Between the Ship-Free Saturday campaign and the proposed West Douglas cruise port, many Southeast Alaskans are wondering if we might be crossing...

Tongass at a crossroads, again

How rollbacks on the Tongass Roadless Rule could threaten the lifeblood of Southeast Alaska.

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