NOAA has not released dates and many details of the fate of these orcas. Here is what I could find out from agency blog and other sources seattletimes.com/seattle-news/e…

Huge graphite deposit in Alaska offers another window into tough decisions faced globally as the imperative of moving off of fossil fuels runs up against the environmental risks involved in making that happen @excellent report by Nat Herz alaskapublic.org/2023/09/26/tes…

In PDX, this epidemic rages on oregonlive.com/news/2023/10/8…

This is a follow to my earlier reporting in September adn.com/alaska-news/wi…

Powerful, powerful letter from a reservist off to war nytimes.com/2023/10/13/opi…

Three decades ago, I got a chance to report on the pollock fishery as a young reported for the Anchorage Daily News. I was grateful to have the chance to head out to sea to report this story, once again for the Anchorage Daily News adn.com/business-econo…

Pollock is the biggest volume fishery in North America. We spent a week aboard a Bering Sea factory trawler to report this story about the harvest, the people who make it happen, and the controversies that surround it. adn.com/business-econo…

The conflicts over North Pacific trawling are sometimes framed as pitting Seattle-controlled fleets against Alaskans. But the rise of western Alaska non profits -vested with harvest shares by federal action -- has changed things. Part two of our series. adn.com/alaska-news/ru…

The second part of this series supported by Pulitzer Center ran in Anchorage Daily News on Sunday. For those who missed part one, here's a link. adn.com/business-econo…

The salmon bycatch in North America’s biggest volume fishery has contributed to gathering tensions over federal fishery regulation off Alaska. ⁦The Seattle Times⁩ publishes our story that first appeared in ⁦Anchorage Daily News⁩ seattletimes.com/seattle-news/e…

This is one powerful interview from Mike Baker seattletimes.com/nation-world/i…

Signs of strangulation yet one of these deaths ruled a suicide. Deep disturbing reporting Kyle Hopkins for the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica //www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2023/11/11/one-woman-died-on-an-alaska-mayors-property-then-another-no-one-has-ever-been-charged/

Genetic analysis is confirming that the killer whales that died in trawl nets off Alaska this year were part of a fish-eating group of residents in the Bering Sea. Those that biologists were able to sex were all females. adn.com/alaska-news/wi…

Should the government start killing off one owl species to save another? Lynda V. Mapes delves into the question in this excellent report. seattletimes.com/seattle-news/e…

I had the very good fortune to work at Anchorage Daily News when Howard led the newspaper, There are few people who have made such a difference in my life and I mourn his passing. "Write hard -- die free," Howard made us all pins with that motto. adn.com/alaska-news/20…

Most of the pollock processed in China comes from Russia, which can not export fish directly to the US due to sanctions. The Outlaw Ocean Project investigation has found that some of that work is done by the forced labor of Uyghurs. adn.com/business-econo…

"the constitutional bell has been rung" nytimes.com/2023/12/20/opi…

Russian salmon, cod, pollock and crab processed in China will be targeted in the expanded sanctions. adn.com/politics/2023/…

A mother recounts the struggle to protect her son in this exclusive from Dominic Gates seattletimes.com/business/boein… via The Seattle Times