Opinion: Some Alaska state legislators are trying to thwart the will of voters — again

The Alaska State Capitol in Juneau. (istock/Getty Images) One of the most cynical things Alaska legislators ever did (and that’s saying something) was voting to gut the 2002 minimum wage increase less than one year after passing it. After trying to …

Alaska could lose a beloved climate communicator if NOAA cuts happen

Rick Thoman poses during a trip to Anchorage. (Adam Nicely/Alaska Public Media) One of Alaska’s most prolific climate communicators could lose his job if the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration go …

OPINION: Alaska’s attorney general should investigate dark money influences

A recent article on Seward’s Folly described how a deceptive political attack ad distributed in Homer was paid for by a non-profit organization in Anchorage called the 907 Initiative. It turns out that the acting US Attorney for Washington, DC, is …

University of Alaska sponsors gender-bending sexuality presentation

A gender-bending professor at the state-funded University of Alaska Southeast recently headlined an official, campus-sponsored talk to promote the notion that sexuality is fluid, and gender is primarily a social construction. Dr. Rally Wolford, a …

OPINION: Alaska’s judicial branch has darkened the light of liberty

Vladimir Nabokov writes in Speak, Memory (1951), “Our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.” Many interpret this as an expression of nihilism — but is it truly? Rather than despair, Nabokov’s “brief crack of light” is …

Alaska NTSB Chief Clint Johnson talks about a deadly plane crash in Nanwalek

With time running out, Alaska Senate reaches a compromise on education funding

When legislators failed to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a $1,000 increase to the state’s per-student funding formula last week, it looked like any hope of securing a permanent increase to education funding this year was toast. But a lot can change …

Senators worry about DEI censorship at University of Alaska

Photo courtesy of ADN. On April 2, the Senate Education Committee held a hearing to address bills and consider appointees for the University of Alaska Board of Regents. The Northern Light interviewed Senator Jesse Kiehl, Senator Gary Stevens and Senator …

Federal job losses hit home in Alaska. How hard? We don’t know yet.

Last July, Dan Ruthrauff was on the North Slope with colleagues, outfitting black brant with metal leg bands. It was the sort of thing he did year after year as a federal research biologist. He wishes he was still working as a federal scientist, adding to …

Alaska should fix problem, not put American Samoans in jail

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA —American Samoans in Alaska are being criminally targeted based on confusion related to Alaska’s election administration system and because they are labeled so-called “non-citizen” U.S. Nationals by the federal government. On …