Alaska Dispatch News

• Election officials face fines, charges in GOP voting laws May 8, 2021
  FILE - In this May 6, 2021, file photo, a group opposing new voter legislation gather outside the House Chamber at the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas. In 2020, election officials tried to make voting easier and safer amid a global pandemic. Next time, they might get fined or face criminal charges. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, […]
• Major US pipeline halts operations after ransomware attack May 8, 2021
  FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2008 file photo traffic on I-95 passes oil storage tanks owned by the Colonial Pipeline Company in Linden, N.J. A major pipeline that transports fuels along the East Coast says it had to stop operations because it was the victim of a cyberattack. Colonial Pipeline said in a statement […]
• A rare Alaska bird comes back to life in a taxidermist’s capable hands May 8, 2021
  Taxidermist Rick Richardson working on an emperor goose mount. (Steve Meyer photo) (Steve Meyer /)When I opened the door of a friend’s taxidermy shop, I was greeted by a bull moose at eye level. Its massive head hung from a beam just inside the door, the antlers extending the width of the entryway.Rick Richardson’s workbenches […]
• ‘On Being a Bear’ is an often fascinating meditation on the fraught relationship between people and bears May 8, 2021
  On Being a Bear: Face to Face with our Wild SiblingRémy Marion, Greystone Books, 250 pages, 2018. First English translation, 2021. $24.95"On Being a Bear: Face to Face with our Wild Sibling," by Rémy MarionIt’s May and the northern hemisphere has woken up, as have its bears. Humans, stirring about after another long winter, are […]
• An Alaska labor union official says its president sent the wrong message on Bronson flier. The union president says he won’t retract his statement. May 8, 2021
  An official with a union that represents a number of blue-collar workers with the state of Alaska, the municipality of Anchorage and other entities said a mailer issued by the Dave Bronson campaign sends an incorrect message that the union has endorsed the candidate.The Laborers’ International Union of North America Local 71 has not endorsed […]