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National series highlights Alaska MMIP crisis, questions of justice for Alaska Native people | Alaska Beacon A new investigative documentary series on HBO highlights the ongoing crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous peoples in Alaska.

A caution to viewers: this is a very explicitly violent true-crime account imo of the case of the serial killer Brian Steven Smith.

It also raises important questions of justice for the victims & families of Kathleen Jo Henry, Veronica Abouchuk & Cassandra Boskofsy
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Judge orders DC police to release bodycam videos related to DOGE takeover of Institute of Peace RCFP attorneys represented journalist Marisa Kabas in a public records lawsuit seeking access to the police bodycam footage.

“This is an important win not just for The Handbasket but for the promise of transparency in DC. The court’s ruling vindicates the public’s right of access to body cam footage, and ensures that the public will get a full and accurate accounting of the episode at the US Institute of Peace last year.”

When Carpenter Media bought three Alaska newspapers, they had nine journalists in the state. Next week, they will have one.

He Was Laid Off at The Washington Post After Working There 60 Years

He Was Laid Off at The Washington Post After Working There 60 Years www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...

Full moon time in Anchorage. The late-afternoon skies and returning light are so pretty now. #Alaska

Looks like the newsroom is entirely gone now. Very sad. Who is covering the news anymore for the Clarion and from where?

Opinion: The state of Alaska’s media Journalism in the Last Frontier isn’t dying — but it’s fighting to survive in a louder, meaner world.

I worked on this editorial for more than half a year. I hope it adequately captures the challenges of Alaska media. Big thanks to @adndotcom for publishing it. www.adn.com/opinions/202... #akleg #AlaskaHistory

Great story. I live in Anchorage and had no idea that there was even an American Samoan community in Whittier.

ICYMI: Alaska is prosecuting 11 American Samoans for violating election laws so confusing and poorly explained that, crucially, the state itself did not even understand or enforce them.

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Horrible.

Good news for the local journalism ecosystem in #Alaska

Winter beauty in urban #Alaska.

Having flown into Anchorage this afternoon, I can attest to how strong the winds were. Plane made two attempts and was being blown around before landing. I was pretty sure we were going to be diverted. At least one passenger vomited.

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”

We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.

➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33

It's not just the newspapers.

"While declines to print readership are almost a foregone conclusion, 'digital traffic to local news sites is experiencing a cratering similar to that of print,' State of Local News Project director Zach Metzger writes in the report. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/in-m...

Anchorage preparing to house more than 1,000 Western Alaska storm evacuees across 4 shelters Anchorage will temporarily shelter people at the Alaska Airlines Center, the Egan Center and the Fairview and Spenard recreation centers.

Anchorage is setting up four shelters that could potentially accommodate more than 1,000 people displaced by unprecedented storms that left entire Western Alaska communities largely uninhabitable.

In photos: Tears and uncertainty in day two of mass evacuation from western Alaska | Alaska Beacon Flights continued on a C-17 military transport plane Thursday evacuating hundreds of residents of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok after the devastation of ex-Typhoon Halong.

In photos: Tears and uncertainty in day two of mass evacuation from western Alaska, reports Corinne Smith for the @alaskabeacon.com

In photos: Mass evacuation of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok residents begins from western Alaska | Alaska Beacon Residents of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok began evacuating en masse on Wednesday, flying in military aircraft from their western Alaska communities which were devastated by ex-Typhoon Halong. On Wednesday…

In photos: Mass evacuation of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok residents begins from western Alaska, reports Corinne Smith for the @alaskabeacon.com

This is a very good paragraph.

From "The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps" in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

By Nancy A. Youssef

Glad to hear you’re continuing to report.

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

@nytimes.com reports on the resignation of four Alaska journalists.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Staff at 3 Alaska newspapers quit after owners give in to pressure from Republican lawmaker Much of the staff behind the Kenai Peninsula Clarion, the Homer News and the Juneau Empire resigned Monday, citing owner Carpenter Media's decision to edit a story without consulting them.

Most of the staff running three Alaska newspapers in Homer, Kenai-Soldotna and Juneau resigned in protest Monday.

“We cannot do our jobs knowing that pressure from an elected official can mean our stories are edited without prior consultation with us," they wrote.
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Was the FCC’s pressure to pull Jimmy Kimmel off the air illegal? Here’s what the Constitution and Supreme Court say. #firstamendment #supremecourt #fcc #politics #news #jimmykimmel

Corals Won’t Survive a Warmer Planet, a New Study Finds

New study says more than 70 percent of Atlantic corals will "begin dying by 2040 even under optimistic climate warming scenarios."

Alaska Natives, barred from king salmon fishing, fight for their right to manage the Yukon River | Alaska Beacon Alaska Native communities along the Yukon River are fighting for the right to manage the river and save the remaining salmon stocks for future generations, before their way of life dies off with the…

Alaska Natives, barred from king salmon fishing, fight for their right to manage the Yukon River, reports Alyssa Chioniere for @prismreports.org via @alaskabeacon.com

With public media under siege, High Plains Public Radio builds a blueprint to cover more rural news with fewer resources To expand regional coverage while keeping costs down, HPPR aims to build out a “contributors network” of part-time and volunteer community members coordinated by a lean central editorial team.

Born of necessity, far from ideal, High Plains Public Radio will build out a “contributors network” using part-time and volunteer community members coordinated by a lean central editorial team.

Goal: "to serve more and to serve better." www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/with...

I wish them luck, do you?

One of at least 16 events planned across Alaska today, tomorrow and Saturday to protest the Trump-Putin summit and show solidarity for Ukraine.

Glacier Outburst Floods: Mendenhall Glacier Every year since 2011, Juneau, Alaska, has been impacted by a unique type of flood that can only occur near places with glaciers.

If you're a storymap kind of person, here's one that nicely explains what's happening & why with the glacial lake outburst flooding now underway on the Mendenhall River near Juneau. #akwx #ClimateChange #Flood #Glacier @spiraledu.bsky.social @alaska.bsky.social

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President Trump has said he wants the U.S. to build or acquire 40 new icebreakers to close the gap with Russia and to counter the growing influence of both Russia, and more recently China, in the #Arctic.

Although he wants to rid his island of reef-killing cesspools, Mayor Kimo Alameda said there's no money to help homeowners make the costly conversions to septic tanks. “It’s an unfunded state mandate and it’s stressing everybody out… especially on our island,” Alameda told me in recent interview.