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Alaska

Best Article Reprints Science

Stickeen: The Story of a Dog

An adventure on an Alaskan glacier with a new best friend.

John Muir Jan 1909 30min Permalink

Science Health

The Frontier Couple Who Chose Death Over Life Apart

Artist Eric Bealer was living the remote, rugged good life in coastal Alaska with his wife, Pam, an MS sufferer, when they made a dramatic decision: to exit this world together, leaving behind precise instructions for whoever entered their cabin first.

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Eva Holland Outside Mar 2020 20min Permalink

Politics

Why Alaskans Are Trying to Recall Their Governor

A statewide movement wants to remove populist Mike Dunleavy from office.

Dan Kaufman New Yorker Mar 2020 30min Permalink

Health

Nobody to Call

On the plight of indigenous suicide in Alaska.

Devon Heinen New Statesman Jan 2020 25min Permalink

Business Crime

The Billion-Dollar High-Speed Internet Scam

Elizabeth Pierce impressed investors with hefty contracts for fiber—until they learned she was the only one who’d signed them.

Austin Carr Bloomberg Businessweek Oct 2019 15min Permalink

“She’s missing. I’m not going to quit her.”

The long, loving search for Betsy, bovine escape artist.

Clio Chang California Sunday Oct 2019 10min Permalink

Crime Health

We Didn't Stand a Chance Against Opioids

What the opioid crisis has done to one indigenous family in Alaska–the writer’s.

Joshua Hunt The New Republic Sep 2019 15min Permalink

Science

The Rat Spill

A tiny Alaskan island faces a threat as deadly as an oil spill—rats.

Sarah Gilman Hakai Magazine Aug 2019 20min Permalink

Arts

Chasing Alexander Supertramp

Twenty years after the world first heard about Christopher McCandless, fans of Into the Wild continue to risk their lives to reach the bus where he died.

Eva Holland SKYE on AOL Dec 2013 20min Permalink

Killing Wolves

Wolf-trapping school in Alaska.

Sherry Simpson Creative Nonfiction Jan 1996 35min Permalink

Best Article Travel

The Senseless Logic of the Wild

It was just a kayaking trip. Then it upended their lives.

Jon Mooallem New York Times Magazine Mar 2019 40min Permalink

Best Article Sports

Out in the Great Alone

A trip to the Iditarod.

Brian Phillips Grantland Apr 2013 20min Permalink

Business

How to Hand out Free Money

Alaska can show us the way.

Katia Savchuk Mother Jones Dec 2018 30min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "An Extravaganza in Two Acts"

An arrangement of convenience in early 20th century Alaska.

Leigh Newman Electric Literature Nov 2018 Permalink

Science

The Loneliest Polar Bear

The life and times of Nora.

Kale Williams Oregon Live Oct 2017 40min Permalink

Food

The Teenage Whaler's Tale

Internet death threats hound a young Alaskan after a successful hunt.

Julia O'Malley High Country News Jul 2017 10min Permalink

Arts Science

Our School

On Alaska’s North Slope, village schools aim to blend book learning with the Arctic reality.

Lauren Markham Orion Jan 2017 25min Permalink

Science Health

The Detective of Northern Oddities

When a creature mysteriously turns up dead in Alaska, veterinary pathologist Kathy Burek gets the call.

Christopher Solomon Outside Jan 2017 25min Permalink

Science

The Last Whale Hunt for a Vanishing Alaskan Village

A story from the end of the earth.

Saki Knafo Men's Journal Oct 2016 25min Permalink

Travel

Living on the Beautiful Edge

A harrowing journey through Alaskan waters in an ancient tugboat.

Brendan Jones Smithsonian Sep 2016 15min Permalink

Whale Hunters of the Warming Arctic

Few Americans are as affected by climate change as Alaska’s Inupiat, or as dependent on the fossil-fuel economy.

Tom Kizzia New Yorker Sep 2016 25min Permalink

Empire of Ice

Life on an oil rig in the Arctic.

Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Sep 2008 40min Permalink

In the Land of Missing Persons

Alaska brims with stories of people who vanish and are given up for dead. Once in a while, the dead return.

Alex Tizon The Atlantic Mar 2016 25min Permalink

Sports

The Greatest Boat Race Ever Dreamed Up Over Beers

An ocean race from the Olympic Peninsula to Alaska, with no motors allowed.

Abe Streep Outside Oct 2015 Permalink

Science

The Man Who Loved Grizzlies

Timothy Treadwell liked to say that, “Grizzlies are misunderstood.” Then one killed him.

Ned Zeman Vanity Fair May 2004 40min Permalink

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