Alaska

Red gloved hands grab a fish out of a huge pile of silver skinned salmon.

Alaska’s seafood industry waits for China tariff pain

Economics

After working for years to attract the Chinese market, Alaska’s seafood industry now faces a 25 percent tariff, a response to the Trump administration’s levies on Chinese goods.

a group of people in a field holding traditional grass baskets

Attu descendants visit their ancestral home for the first time

Gas pipeline in Germany

Trump pushes natural gas deal between China and Alaska, but obstacles remain

Environment
ANWR porcupine caribou

Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is more likely now than ever before

Economics
Girls with the “Rhythm of Light” dance troupe perform at a weekly farmer’s market in Anchorage’s Mountain View neighborhood.

Guess which state has America’s most diverse neighborhood? Hint: It’s not California, New York or Florida.

Culture
The World

Watch one scientist’s unorthodox approach to getting ‘inside the mind of a musk ox’

Science

It involves a grizzly bear costume and nerves of steel.

The World

Is ‘mean girls’ misogynist?

Global Politics

Earlier this week, we spoke to Gail Sheehy of The Daily Beast about what Maureen Dowd and she have labelled the “mean girls” in this election But is that term fair? Rebecca Traister, senior writer at Salon.com, joins us.

Valdez, Alaska, turns to outside help to dig out from 10+ foot snow drifts

Environment

The Pineapple Express jet stream from Alaska is meeting up with a Siberian cold air mass over Alaska and it’s dropping foot after foot of snow on top of many Alaskan communities.

Giant gold, copper deposits discovered in Alaska — digging them out the trouble

Environment

About 200 miles from Anchorage, in a remote corner of a remote state, there’s hundreds of billions of dollars of minerals laying underground. Getting them out, however, could endanger an important natural ecosystem.

Foreign students paying to get fish processing jobs in Alaska

Globalization has transformed some fish processing plants in Alaska, where most of the workers now are foreign students.