Alaska Dispatch News

• Ugly win over South has East sitting pretty in CIC football September 15, 2019
  Neither head coach was thrilled by what he saw Saturday night when the East Thunderbirds and South Wolverines faced off in a Cook Inlet Conference clash at South High. It was a sloppy game filled with mistakes that could’ve cost either team the game but it was the visiting T-Birds who came out on top, […]
• Recall is attractive to Dunleavy’s opponents. But it’s not their best option. September 15, 2019
  For Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s political foes, there’s an intuitive appeal to recalling him from the state’s top executive seat. When you find yourself having taken a wrong turn while out hiking, for instance, you reverse course to the point where you departed from your intended path. When a business partnership goes sour, you explore new […]
• Yemen rebels claim responsibility for crippling attacks on Saudi oil facilities September 15, 2019
  STANBUL - Explosions and towering fireballs struck the heart of Saudi Arabia's oil empire on Saturday in an apparent wave of drone attacks claimed by Yemen's Houthi rebels. The blows knocked out more than half the kingdom's oil output for days or more and threatened to drive up already high tensions between Iran and its […]
• ‘This town is just exhausted’: Cooper Landing wrestles with aftermath of a summer lost to wildfire September 15, 2019
  COOPER LANDING — Jen Harpe looked over her 5-acre property on a recent weekday afternoon. The Swan Lake fire hadn’t torn into this Kenai Peninsula town this summer, as she worried it might, but it left scars.Stumps dotted Harpe’s land. Friends had cut down spruce trees, fearing they could ignite. Inside, a stack of family […]
• Will we know global warming when we see it? September 15, 2019
  Fall colors were turning as I drove home through the Kenai Mountains last week, a drive I’ve made a hundred times and more. There were new colors as well — high on the sun-lit mountainsides, the summer’s extraordinary fireweed had gone to seed in an unusual shade of pink cotton. And then, after Cooper Landing, […]