The housing crisis is at the doorstep of every American town and city, big or small. Alaska and the Municipality of Anchorage are no exception. People who a decade or two could have purchased homes now find homeownership far out … Read More

I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving with friends and family. Christmas will be here before we know it. Several undetermined races were decided this week when the Division of Elections finally conducted the ranked choice tabulation. And on Friday … Read More

Welcome to this edition of the Alaska Stalker, a lighthearted round up of the best and worst of Alaska’s social media landscape. If you enjoy the Alaska Stalker, please consider supporting working moms like me…… Read More

The Alaska State Senate has formed a bipartisan majority coalition for the first time in ten years. From 2006 to 2012, the Senate was ruled by a…… Read More

  Make sure tune into our live coverage of the ranked choice tabulation starting today at 3:30 pm. We will be broadcasting live on the Landmine website as well as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. Jeff Landfield and Charisse Millett will be following … Read More

Musically, Anchorage is a pretty transient town. It’s not uncommon for bands, venues, and even whole scenes to pop up and dissipate seemingly overnight. So when a band sticks around for a while, musicians and concertgoers in the 49th state tend to sit up…… Read More

Thanksgiving is only four days away! It’s almost two weeks past Election Day and results are still being updated. Because of the nature of ranked choice voting we won’t know the outcome of several races until Wednesday, when votes are … Read More

(Warning: this article contains spoilers about Season One of ABC’s Alaska Daily) The show opens at sunset in the waters off the Gulf of Alaska…… Read More

At the risk of returning to a subject some think we have already overdone, this week we focus again on the argument some (largely on the right) make that using taxes to raise revenue would only serve to increase government … Read More

Representative Tom McKay (R – Anchorage) and Republican Julie Coulombe may end up being victims of ranked choice voting. McKay and Coulombe are…… Read More