Alaska

Alaska Airlines flight attendants say: ‘Pay us or CHAOS!’

Seattle Some 400 to 500 flight attendants at Alaska Airlines rallied and marched on Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Aug. 15 for…

August 23, 2023

Typhoon rips through Western Alaska exposing high cost of climate change

A New York Times weekly news quiz Sept. 9 asked which of these climate disasters happened this summer: floods in…

October 6, 2022

Trump pushes ANWR drilling – what will Biden do?

Since Nov. 7, corporate media has focused on President Donald Trump’s refusal to accept his election defeat, labeling his actions…

November 25, 2020

Alaskan and Caribbean storms increase dangers for Indigenous peoples, workers

Nov. 16 — The storms battering the north and northwest coast of Alaska and the hurricanes rampaging through the Caribbean…

November 18, 2020

On the picket line: Alaska ferry workers win strike

Alaska ferry workers win strike More than 400 ferry workers at Alaska Marine Highway began picketing when their ships arrived…

August 23, 2019

Impact of global warming on Arctic community in Nome, Alaska

Nome, Alaska, had back-to-back blizzards followed by rain, ending a February that saw temperatures in the upper 20s or low…

March 11, 2019

Alaska ends subminimum wage

Feb. 23 — Alaska became the third state to eliminate subminimum wage for disabled workers. The law in Alaska takes…

March 2, 2018

The human toll of global warming — Alaska to Louisiana

What ties together developments in the Alaskan village of Shishmaref, on Sarichef Island in the Chukchi Sea, with the extraordinary…

September 4, 2016

Obama’s Alaska trip motivated by Big Oil and war threats

With great fanfare, while making an unprecedented presidential trip to Alaska on Aug. 31, President Barack Obama “renamed” the tallest…

September 3, 2015

Inuit in Alaska versus nuclear waste

Fairbanks, Alaska -- “Plowshares” was a propaganda effort fostered by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to convince the world that nuclear…

March 13, 2014