A long walk in the Arctic
Late last June, I drove from my home in Anchorage to Fairbanks...
21 January, 2023
Between a rock and a hard place: the road to Ambler
In the first piece in our series on mining in Alaska, we...
16 November, 2022
A climber’s reflection: Being in that exact spot, at that exact moment
I always wanted to climb as a kid. As soon as I...
15 November, 2022
Howling pierced the morning quiet
We looked up the hillside and saw a pack of five or...
17 May, 2022
An Arctic wish list with 2022 resolve
Our work feels less frantic and chaotic than it did a year...
17 December, 2021
Interior seeks pause on Arctic road litigation, threat to people, land remains
Late last month the Interior Department requested a 60-day stay of action...
15 October, 2021
AIDEA uses health crisis to funnel cash to industrial road
The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority used the Covid-19 crisis to...
21 April, 2020
The road to a budget black hole
What does Alaska’s budget chaos have to do with a proposed private...
22 August, 2019
Ambler project endangers wildlife and people
[caption id="attachment_3496" align="alignright" width="456"] The pot of gold at the end of...
16 February, 2018