Alaska Dispatch News

• Want to save Anchorage? Get vaccinated. September 18, 2021
  A syringe contains a dose of a Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine sits in a container, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, during a vaccine clinic at Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage. (Loren Holmes / ADN) (Loren Holmes/)One of the defining characteristics of Alaska’s experience during the COVID-19 pandemic has been the capacity for new extremes. Just when […]
• Now’s a great time to scope out options for a wintertime Alaska road trip or tour September 18, 2021
  We’ve turned the corner from summer to fall. There’s snow on the hills. Winter’s coming.For some, the “termination dust” is the signal they need to book tickets to somewhere south of here. But for many of us who call Alaska home, it’s time to dust off our winter gear. Maybe this week you can pour […]
• A do-it-yourself fishing adventure on Alaska’s Kanektok River September 18, 2021
  A dock hand helps load the Beaver floatplane that delivered two people to Pegati Lake. The de Havilland Beaver is the workhorse floatplane of Alaska. Photo for The Washington Post by Chris Santella (Chris Santella/)Among angling cognoscenti, the Kanektok in Alaska’s southwest enjoys a stellar reputation. The river flows roughly 100 miles from its source […]
• Police are scouring a vast Florida preserve in search of Gabby Petito’s fiance September 18, 2021
  Law enforcement officials are scouring a vast Florida preserve Saturday for Brian Laundrie, the fiance of a 22-year-old woman reported missing after he returned from a cross-country trip without her and refused to speak with authorities.The North Port Police Department announced on Twitter that it is working with the FBI and agency partners to search […]
• US ramps up plan to expel Haitian migrants gathered in Texas September 18, 2021
  Haiti migrants waiting in Del Rio and Ciudad Acuña to get access to the United States, cross the Rio Grande toward Ciudad Acuña to get supplies, Friday, Sept. 17, 2021, in Ciudad Acuña, Mexico. (Marie D. De Jesús/Houston Chronicle via AP) (Marie D. De Jesús/)DEL RIO, Texas — U.S. officials said Saturday that within the […]