Alaska Dispatch News

• The Alaska village where every cop has been convicted of domestic violence July 20, 2019
  This article was produced in partnership with ProPublica as part of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. This is the second article in a continuing series, Lawless: Sexual violence in Alaska.STEBBINS — When Nimeron Mike applied to be a city police officer here last New Year’s Eve, he didn’t really expect to get the job.Mike was […]
• Legislators: Fixing budget and dividend likely requires ‘full package’ of compromise July 20, 2019
  JUNEAU — The Alaska Legislature has 60 members, but when it comes to solving the state’s budget issues, the deciding votes appear to rest with the 15-member Republican minority in the Alaska House of Representatives. Unfortunately for hopes of a quick solution, members of that group say they don’t have a firm position on a […]
• Native Hawaiians say telescope represents bigger struggle July 20, 2019
  HONOLULU — Walter Ritte has been fighting for decades to protect Native Hawaiian rights, inspiring a new generation of activists trying to stop construction of a giant telescope they see as representative of a bigger struggle.In his early 30s, Ritte occupied a small Hawaiian island used as a military bombing range. Now at 74, he's […]
• Giant Hawaii telescope will dive into the big unknowns of the universe July 20, 2019
  HONOLULU — Is there life on planets outside our solar system? How did stars and galaxies form in the earliest years of the universe? How do black holes shape galaxies?Scientists are expected to explore those and other fundamental questions about the universe when they peer deep into the night sky using a new telescope planned […]
• Some asylum seekers forced to wait in Mexico help each other July 20, 2019
  SAN LUIS RIO COLORADO, Mexico — A small group of asylum seekers sit under a canopy on the side of a road leading into the United States, chatting to pass the time as a blazing desert sun pushes the heat into triple digits and fumes roll in from dozens of cars lined up to cross […]