3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1614+ words) Twenty-five years after 9/11, the surveillance infrastructure built and expanded in its aftermath has become part of a far larger digital ecosystem — producing tools that can collect and analyze information on a scale unimaginable in 2001. The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, did…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (204+ words) Juneau Independent Aw, it’s election time again, my least favorite season of all… I am writing this letter to express my disgust at the bombardment of political ads, specifically those on TV, that are aired multiple times each hour. Every…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (599+ words) A Haines man is heading up an effort to collect supplies for a home rebuilding effort in Tok where the Mukluk Fire has devastated parts of the community. The Mukluk Fire started on August 17. According to the Alaska Division of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (276+ words) Juneau Independent During our 80 years in Alaska, we have seen many territorial senators and U.S. senators represent Alaska. Gruening, Stevens and lately Murkowski have seemed to understand their job was to do what was best for the country while looking out…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (727+ words) A question of who organized a tribute procession honoring the late Dolly Parton circled among more than 100 cowboys and cowgirls as they strutted through downtown last Friday. “It was organized by Dolly herself,” Collette Costa said with a smile. Really,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1596+ words) Final results from Alaska’s August primary election indicate existing coalition majorities in the state House and Senate are likely to continue after November’s general election and could even grow. Alaska is the only state in the country where the state…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1770+ words) The salmon and the ooligan that spawn in the Unuk and Stikine rivers have no say in the expansion of mining operations in British Columbia. Neither do the Alaskan tribes that live on the same rivers. The power lies across…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (325+ words) One woman was injured in a bear mauling on Mt. Riley Road early Saturday morning. A Haines Volunteer Fire Department ambulance responded at 6:23 a.m. to a report of a bear mauling and took the victim to the SEARHC clinic in town....

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (429+ words) State and industry officials and the U.S. Coast Guard were responding on Tuesday to an unexplained oil spill roughly 60 miles southwest of Anchorage in Southcentral Alaska’s Cook Inlet. The spill, which produced a long oil sheen on the water near the…...