Good news for the local journalism ecosystem in #Alaska

Winter beauty in urban #Alaska.

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 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, reports Corinne Smith for the @alaskabeacon.com

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

@nytimes.com reports on the resignation of four Alaska journalists. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

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. https://akpub.io/4o371i7

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

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, reports Alyssa Chioniere for @prismreports.org via @alaskabeacon.com

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.

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 storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/72ce...

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.

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

The ICE agents did not care that he had a driver's license or service card. They also did not know or care about the fact his family, like many of us, has a 400-year history here in New Mexico. Their only concern was his last name — a very common Hispanic last name.

Toxin that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning blamed for Alaska seal deaths, reports Yereth Rosen, @yjrosen.bsky.social, of @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/2025/07/14/t...

BBC News - Tuam: How hundreds of babies and toddlers came to be buried in an unmarked mass grave - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New: How UnitedHealth is trying to quiet its critics through legal threats against journalists, investors, doctors, filmmakers and others. The giant company is invoking the murder of its CEO to argue that intense criticism risks inciting future violence. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/b...

Floods are swallowing their village. But for them and others, the EPA has cut the lifeline, reports Ames Alexander for @floodlightnews.org, via @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/2025/07/11/f...

Whales are considered a sentinel species because they feed throughout the water column by scooping up tiny crustaceans. “They’re a good proxy for what’s in the environment,” said climate scientist Rick Thoman of UAF’s International Arctic Research Center, a study co-author @alaskawx.bsky.social

Local sheep(s).

Just some backyard beauty in Anchorage. #summervibes #alaska

Alaska’s state flower, advancing across my friend’s garden. So delicate but feisty. #forgetmenot

Kristi Noem is seen as a "delicate, beautiful, tiny woman" while leading DHS, yet Rep. McIver was arrested for protesting it, and Sen. Padilla was tackled for even questioning it. It's clear who gets to be “delicate, beautiful, and tiny,” and who is seen as a violent threat to law enforcement.

Our brains love the colour gradation in rainbows, maybe due to our ancestors searching for sources of water. Looking at plants helps us recover from stress & looking at something we think is beautiful causes dopamine release. I've posted this photo to alter your brain biochemistry for the better 🌿

Stealthy volcanoes can be especially hazardous when located close to population centers. Merapi in Indonesia, Galeras in Colombia, Stromboli in Italy and Popocatépetl and Colima in Mexico are examples, according to the paper.

Alaska detained 42 men arrested by ICE and flown in from out of state, amid federal crackdown, reports Corinne Smith, @corinne-smith.bsky.social, of @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/2025/06/11/a...

I was looking into this new Alaska mountain name and ended up also writing a separate article about another map-name issue you might be familiar with: alaskabeacon.com/briefs/five-... #akleg

Since I wrote this earlier this week, a court has dismissed the foreclosure case after the involved parties came to an agreement, the details of which are undisclosed. A spokesperson for the county said he had no information to share at this point.

Spring preening. #swans

Alaska’s second-largest city has struggled for decades with some of the nation’s worst winter air pollution. Now years of work to clear particulate pollution from the air in the Fairbanks North Star Borough is paying off. via @alaskabeacon.com

Why there won’t be significant logging in the Tongass, according to Rodger Painter in a commentary for @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/2025/05/14/w...

Tessa Hulls was making sandwiches in the Alaska Capitol when she learned she had won a Pulitzer Prize, reports James Brooks, @alaska.bsky.social, of @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/2025/05/05/f...

Wow. Scott Pelley bringing the truth.

Among the federal websites salvaged is EJScreen, which tracks communities suffering disproportionate health risks from pollution. The Trump EPA killed the site as part of its assault on programs intended to help the most vulnerable Americans.

In a new memo, Attorney General Pam Bondi said the DOJ will allow for subpoenas, court orders and search warrants to get information and testimony from journalists.

Journalists participating in #SEJ2025 got a tour of the border wall in Nogales led by Kendal Blust and Kiley Price. It was an eye opener to say the least.

Jennifer Vasquez Sura has fought to bring her husband, Kilmar Abrego García, home to Maryland from a Salvadoran prison while caring for their kids, two of whom are disabled. “I just want my husband back, my best friend back, my kids’ father back,” Vasquez Sura said. “I want our life back.”

So the US is just disappearing people now. Terrifying. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

I tried to articulate something that I thought was missing from most assessments of Blue Origin's all-women stunt flight: that its message was profoundly sexist. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Join us for an urgent discussion on the @apnews.com ban, White House press pool, and other attacks on the press by the Trump administration, featuring @briankarem.bsky.social, @stephaniesugars.bsky.social, and @caitlinvogus.bsky.social. 🗓️ April 16, 2pm ET/11am PT freedom.press/access-denied

A win for the free press and the First Amendment.

Jenner and Block and WilmerHale are suing President Trump over executive orders targeting the firms for their clients and work, saying they undermine the overall legal system.

Meet our new U.S. attorney, a ‘big fan’ of accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate newjerseymonitor.com/2025/03/26/m...

Alaska Natives want the US military to clean up its toxic waste, reports Anita Hofschneider for @gristnews.bsky.social, via @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/2025/03/21/a...