Mining companies profit and you pay the price—updates on the Ambler and Mat Su industrial roads
By Dawnell Smith The Trump administration has recently pushed for two major industrial...
15 October, 2026
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