YOU ROCK 4EVER XOXO—Alaska News Brief February 2026
The retail sector makes a big deal of Valentine’s Day. There’s money to be made, of...
The retail sector makes a big deal of Valentine’s Day. There’s money to be made, of...
By Dawnell Smith Smog, pesticides, burning rivers and oil spills grabbed the attention...
By Dawnell Smith In Phillip Pullman’s “The Dark Materials” books, the mighty polar bear finds himself exiled from his kingdom. Humans trick him into drunkenness, so...
By Madison Grosvenor A series of federal actions and legal developments this month...
As I check off my to-do list before heading to Ecuador for...
By Dawnell Smith Yesterday we filed an amended and supplemental complaint in our 2020 lawsuit challenging the shoddy Trump leasing...
By Dawnell Smith Industrial mining destroys the lands where it blasts, drills, crushes, and digs. It poisons streams, rivers, and lakes and requires perpetual...
By Madison Grosvenor The snow is finally falling in Southcentral. I have eagerly awaited skiing on fresh...
A bone chill keeps pestering me this holiday season. At times, the forecast for warmth and merriment feels superficial at best. I mean, it’s...
By Margaret Williams, Trustees board member As a kid growing up in a...
Winter solstice always invites a moment of pause. It gives us an...
By Madison Grosvenor Though frozen, the sea ice biome is anything but still....
This week we sued the Alaska State Board of Game and the...
By Dawnell Smith While Alaskans faced job furloughs and worried about food and...
By Madison Grosvenor We took the Alaska Board of Game to court last...
By Dawnell Smith Once upon a time, a land plant got salty. [caption id="attachment_20558"...
Earlier this month, the remnants of a typhoon that originated in the...
By Dawnell Smith When you hear oil companies talk about looking for oil...
By Dawnell Smith The Trump administration just made it clear who and what...
By Madison Grosvenor In Crossing the Swamp, poet Mary Oliver immerses us in...
Sometimes it feels like we’re moving lickety-split toward a goal, keeping a...
by Dawnell Smith Three years ago, a four-month-old bar-tailed godwit flew nonstop for...
by Peg Tileston, founder and longtime board member When we founded Trustees for...
By Madison Grosvenor Who makes sure federal agencies play by the rules when...
In 1650, after living through about eight years of civil war in...
By Dawnell Smith Marybeth Holleman found herself taking a leap of faith. The...
By Madison Grosvenor Each year in Alaska, caribou carve their way across thousands...
By Dawnell Smith When someone dies, someone else grapples with their stuff. They...
The true story that inspired the iconic book “Moby Dick” tells a...
By Madison Grosvenor While fireworks lit up the sky this Fourth of July,...