After more than seven and a half years covering Alaska politics, The Midnight Sun political blog is joining the Alaska Current.
Starting Feb. 1, The Midnight Sun officially becomes a part of the Alaska Current, a growing journalistic collective. The...
After the heat wave-induced collapse of the Bering Sea snow crab fishery, some fishermen were looking, with hope, at the upcoming tanner crab harvest out of Kodiak.
The nearly 6-million-pound quota was the highest in decades. And some people spent more than...
As a new member to the DC, Rep. Mary Peltola is already a target for the MAGA swamp.
Earlier this month, far-right activist/white supremacist/internet personality Laura Loomer tweeted a video of her chasing Peltola around, harassing her.
Loomer is a self-described...
With the election in the rearview mirror, Alaskans spent December posting about feet upon feet of snow in Anchorage with not a plow in sight, and a meteor threatening to just end it all.
Lisa Murkowski dominated Twitter by shaming...
The Anchorage Assembly is proposing more transparency of how the Municipality of Anchorage spends public funds.
Under a new proposal, Anchorage would implement an open checkbook law, requiring all spending to be published in a public ledger. The idea was...
Anchorage School Board candidate Mark Anthony Cox, who has unsuccessfully run for office three times in the past two years, has some questionable campaign finance and spending practices. A review of Cox’s campaign finance filings show sizable expenditures to...
The Anchorage Assembly took steps on Friday to limit Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson’s spending power and increase transparency, following allegations from his former municipal manager that he was authorizing improper contracts.
The Assembly approved three ordinances to give the body...
The Anchorage Ombudsman’s Office, an arbiter independent of the mayoral administration, reported Thursday that Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson’s administration is pulling surveillance footage to see who is going in and out of the office.
The Ombudsman reviews complaints from the...
This story is republished from dermotcole.com with permission.
The Dunleavy administration has refused to explain how it intends to generate $7 billion in new revenue over the next decade, though it released a state budget forecast saying the money will...
Over the holiday weekend, Emily Goodykoontz and Kyle Hopkins of the Anchorage Daily News published yet another article on Mayor Bronson’s embattled administration that you don’t want to miss. Some of what you are about to read deals with...