The great Alaska walrus caper of 2023
How did a walrus get four miles from shore, to the middle of an Alaska oil field? I hunted for answers — and found them.
Nathaniel Herz
Interesting stuff: Alaska tribal health groups battle over documents in court; Clarkson and Kelly return to politics
Plus: More details about the removal of a university researcher from a state electricity task force, which came after she "disappointed" the head of the Alaska Energy Authority.
Interesting stuff: Former Peltola chief of staff will lobby, consult for Alaska interests in D.C.
Alex Ortiz, a longtime staffer to the Alaska delegation, has taken a job as a lobbyist and consultant at Capitol Hill Consulting Group, whose clients include Native corporations and a mining company.
Alaska salmon fishermen fume over low prices, but processors say they're hurting too
Bristol Bay fishermen are calling for strikes, lawsuits and “the goddamn picket signs and pitchforks” in response to low salmon prices. But an industry expert says processors have been "screwed," too.
Alaska Gov. Dunleavy fires two Susitna road opponents from land management advisory board
Israel Mahay, who owns a Susitna river jet boat business, had chaired the Recreation Rivers Advisory board. Mike Overcast, who owns a heliskiing lodge in the Susitna watershed, was set to replace him.
Interesting stuff: a new wind project takes shape outside Anchorage, as AIDEA mulls options for struggling state-owned oil field
Alaska Renewables is proposing a major new wind development near the village of Tyonek, the Legislature's ethics committee loses its administrator and Murkowski gets a new communications director.
A crucial van service in Anchorage's public safety system is short-staffed, straining city fire and police
The Anchorage Health Department has withheld five months of payment from contractor Securitas, which operates a van service that picks up intoxicated people at a lower cost than emergency responders.