By Dermot Cole

The October auction to sell 2,000 acres of land near Nenana has everything to do with the needs of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s reelection campaign and nothing to do with a rational plan for...

But not a penny of state money or federal money should subsidize the venture, which would be a crippling long-term blow to the tourist economy of Fairbanks. Doyon proposes a new airport be...

The University of Alaska and the Wilson Center seem to have forgotten the importance of testing assumptions in setting up the agenda for the so-called “minerals summit” at UAF.The summit is structured like...

That the Kinross feasibility study says the “high-grade, low-cost” Tetlin project should proceed is no surprise, given the push by Kinross and the billions at stake.The owners expect to make $800 per ounce...

In 2019, Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s office steered a no-bid contract, worth up to $441,000 to the grandson of one of the major financial backers of his 2018 campaign.Clark Penney, the grandson of Dunleavy...

Kelly Tshibaka has done everything to attach herself to Donald Trump, currying his favor by repeating his lies about the results of the 2020 election.Alaska news organizations have failed to examine Tshibaka’s two-year...

When Donald Trump travels to Alaska and starts telling lies about Sen. Lisa Murkowski, count on Mike Dunleavy, Sarah Palin and Kelly Tshibaka to stand by and smile.That Trump will lie is a...

When Sarah Palin performs in public, one of her stock lines is that she “has nothing to lose,” portraying herself as someone who no longer takes offense at what people say about her,...