we need a longform semi-investigative magazine article about how Japan has quickly produced some of the coolest skateboarding in the world. the time for skateboard Grantland is now.

In Alaska, as in most of the country, heroin has been basically entirely replaced with fentanyl in the opioid supply. The switch is apparent in interdictions, overdose rates, and how people are using.

Today, we share the exciting news that our newsroom staff has asked the leadership of the Anchorage Daily News to voluntarily recognize us as the Anchorage News Guild.

If unionization occurs, the Anchorage News Guild would be the only Alaska newsroom represented by a union. alaskasnewssource.com/2024/09/10/anc…

We’re unionizing, y’all. Sign up to help local journalists here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… #ADNUnited

🗳️ We’re voting! An election facilitated by the NLRB has been set for Oct. 8, at which point the Anchorage News Guild will vote to unionize. 🗳️

This reporter should be suspended without pay for pushing mongo in the street course.

The hottest atikluks in Alaska come from Nome, and are a mix of indigenous traditional design and the highest tech polyester. And, fun fact for all the owl heads: they’re named for the great horned owls upriver from Koyuk.

The whale could be with us for a long, ling time. It’s likely frozen to the spot, even if a big tide in mid-December does occur. There are no plans to move it.

Beetles have long been kept at universities to prepare animal specimens for museum displays, including at the University of Alaska’s Museum of the North. But their use by hobbyist and taxidermy businesses is more recent. adn.com/alaska-life/20…

Wet wipes flushed down Anchorage toilets wreak havoc on city water utility, contributing to higher costs adn.com/alaska-news/an…

In exchange for donations to its second annual “Love Hurts” fundraiser, the Bird TLC will name a rat or worm after your ex before feeding it to one of its beaked creatures. adn.com/alaska-news/wi…

Iditarod is moving the race to Fairbanks because of low/no snow between Rohn and Nikolai (thru the Buffalo Tunnels, Farewell Burn). Race will cut west from Fbx, then take a dog leg south from Kaltag to lower Yukon, go back up and resume normal route over the portage. New routing.

This is the 4th time the race has relocated to Fairbanks (2003, 2015, 2017). Most of the route is fine, per trail breaker reports. Even the Dalzell Gorge. But the 75-mile run from Rohn to Nikolai is bare, bumpy, bad. Many mushers worried it would be a repeat of 2014.

For decades, this town has had an on-again, off-again relationship with the country just 160 miles west as the crow flies. But ever since the start of the war in Ukraine, those ties have been superseded by the anger and activism of a cadre of volunteers. wapo.st/4hbP4Kt

Wrote about some of the weird ways people in Nome, one of the U.S. towns closest to Russia, are supporting fighters and refugees in Ukraine, for The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02…

Murkowski's comments were made back on Monday, and we only know about it because the Anchorage Daily News reporter Zachariah Hughes was in attendance when Murkowski spoke with a group of Alaska nonprofit leaders. adn.com/politics/2025/…