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Shawn Steik poses for a photo Wednesday, July, 26, 2023, in downtown Anchorage, Alaska. Steik said he and his wife would likely fly to Seattle if Mayor Dave Bronson's plan announced last week goes forward to buy homeless people plane tickets out of the state or to other Alaska cities to avoid the frigid winter temperatures instead of standing up Anchorage's sports arena as a mass shelter. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

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Anchorage homeless face cold and bears. A plan to offer one-way airfare out reveals a bigger crisis
By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press
Sat,07/29/23-11:22PM , 92 Reads
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Shawn Steik and his wife were forced from a long-term motel room onto the streets of Anchorage after their rent shot up to $800 a month. Now they live in a tent encampment by a train depot, and as an Alaska winter looms they are growing desperate and fearful of what lies ahead.
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In this June 21, 2023, photo, meteorologist David Percy films the daily "Alaska Weather" program in a makeshift studio at the National Weather Service office in Anchorage, Alaska. The "Alaska Weather" program she oversees, the only weather show produced by the National Weather Service, will have its last on-air broadcast Friday after Alaska Public Media dropped distribution, forcing it to YouTube. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

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How's the weather up there? It'll be harder for Alaska to tell as a longtime program goes off air
By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press
Thu,06/29/23-12:59AM , 120 Reads
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Before Morris Nashoanak heads out for days in search of bearded seals, beluga whales or salmon, he catches the weather on TV.
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This photo provided by the City of Nome shows the inner harbor of the Port of Nome, Alaska, on Aug. 11, 2017, where goods at that arrive at the port are then prepared for shipment to villages throughout the region. Shipping lanes that were once clogged with ice for much of the year along Alaska's western and northern coasts have relented thanks to global warming, and the nation's first deep water Arctic port should be operational in Nome by the end of the decade. (Nome Harbormaster Lucas Stotts/City of Nome via AP)

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Cruising to Nome: The first U.S. deep water port for the Arctic to host cruise ships, military
By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press
Sat,06/17/23-11:45PM , 214 Reads
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The cruise ship with about 1,000 passengers anchored off Nome, too big to squeeze into into the tundra city's tiny port. Its well-heeled tourists had to shimmy into small boats for another ride to shore.
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A male sage grouse struts in the early morning hours outside Baggs, Wyo., on April 22, 2015. A federal judge on Friday, June 2, 2023, yanked the U.S. government's approval for a phosphate mining project in southeastern Idaho. The decision comes five months after the judge ruled the U.S. Bureau of Land Management violated environmental laws when it approved the Caldwell Canyon Mine in 2019. Those include a failure to consider the indirect impact of processing ore at a nearby plant and the impact on sage grouse. (Dan Cepeda/The Casper Star-Tribune via AP)

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Approval for Idaho phosphate mine reversed after judge rules US didn't assess prairie bird impact
By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press
Mon,06/05/23-5:38PM , 91 Reads
A federal judge has yanked approval for a phosphate mining project in southeastern Idaho, saying federal land managers in the Trump administration didn’t in part properly consider the mine’s impact on sage grouse, a bird species that has seen an 80% decline in population since 1965.
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