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Democrats have their challenger for Sen. Dan Sullivan — and she works for an Alaska newspaper

Democrats have their challenger for Sen. Dan Sullivan — and she works for an Alaska newspaper

Alaska Democrats appear to have found their challenger in the 2026 US Senate race. Ann Diener, a Democrat and newspaper sales executive at the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, filed to run against incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, who has served...

PBS And NPR Are Generally Unbiased, Independent Of Government Propaganda And Provide Key Benefits To US Democracy

PBS And NPR Are Generally Unbiased, Independent Of Government Propaganda And Provide Key Benefits To US Democracy

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Champions of the almost entirely party-line vote in the U.S. Senate to erase US$1.1 billion in already approved funds for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting called their action a refusal to subsidize liberal media....

Trump’s New World (Dis)order

Trump’s New World (Dis)order

Al Letson: From The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, this is Reveal. I’m Al Letson. From a surprise decision to attack a nuclear site in Iran, to going back and forth on arming Ukraine and its fight against Russia, to weaponizing...

AP Business SummaryBrief at 6:29 p.m. EDT

More Americans shift money from checking and savings to accounts with investment income, study says WASHINGTON (AP) — New research finds that more Americans are shifting their money from checking and savings accounts into financial vehicles that...

US: Alaska Airlines Restores Operations After Equipment Failure at Data Centre Grounds All Planes

US: Alaska Airlines Restores Operations After Equipment Failure at Data Centre Grounds All Planes

New York, July 21: Alaska Airlines has resumed flights after the failure of a critical piece of hardware forced the airline to ground all its planes for approximately three hours, but the effects will linger into Monday, the company announced. The...

Computer Glitch Grounds Every Alaska Airlines Flight

Computer Glitch Grounds Every Alaska Airlines Flight

A computer outage forced Alaska Airlines and its subsidiary Horizon Air to ground all flights Sunday night, halting operations across the board. On Monday, the airline said that operations were coming back online. The airline requested a...

Anchorage superintendent doubles down on budget drama, but weaves and dodges on actual layoffs

Anchorage superintendent doubles down on budget drama, but weaves and dodges on actual layoffs

Anchorage School District Superintendent Dr. Jharrett Bryantt issued a second high-drama letter to families and staff on Friday, continuing to sound alarm bells over budget cuts but offering little accountability for his own role in spreading...

Montana public media faces cuts as D.C. passes rescissions package 

Montana public media faces cuts as D.C. passes rescissions package 

Yellowstone Public Radio, Montana Public Radio and Montana PBS indicated that roughly 16% of their funding comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. By Zeke Lloyd and Nora Mabie MONTANA FREE PRESS The House gave final approval early...

AP Business SummaryBrief at 4:18 p.m. EDT

More Americans shift money from checking and savings to accounts with investment income, study says WASHINGTON (AP) — New research finds that more Americans are shifting their money from checking and savings accounts into financial vehicles that...

Microsoft hit with SharePoint attack affecting global businesses and governments

Microsoft hit with SharePoint attack affecting global businesses and governments

A Microsoft store in New York, US, on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft has warned of "active attacks" targeting its SharePoint collaboration software, with security researchers noting that organizations...

Increasing Arctic shipping sparks increased monitoring of vessels on Alaska's coastline

Increasing Arctic shipping sparks increased monitoring of vessels on Alaska's coastline

Marine Exchange of Alaska and a watchdog initiative called Arctic Watch are expanding the monitoring of marine vessels in Arctic waters. This summer Marine Exchange of Alaska, the non-governmental agency that acts as a middle man between mariners...

AP Business SummaryBrief at 2:25 p.m. EDT

More Americans shift money from checking and savings to accounts with investment income, study says WASHINGTON (AP) — New research finds that more Americans are shifting their money from checking and savings accounts into financial vehicles that...

IT outage grounds all Alaska Airlines, Horizon Air flights

Alaska Airlines and its subsidiary Horizon Air grounded all flights on Sunday night due to an information technology outage, the company said Monday. The ground stop order lasted from about 11 p.m. Eastern time to 2 a.m. on Monday. The outage...

It wasn’t hackers: Alaska Airlines reveals IT outage was caused by a critical piece of hardware failing

It wasn’t hackers: Alaska Airlines reveals IT outage was caused by a critical piece of hardware failing

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

After FBI Warning, Alaska Airlines Grounded; Salt Typhoon Suspected

After FBI Warning, Alaska Airlines Grounded; Salt Typhoon Suspected

Alaska Airlines grounded its jets during a sudden systemwide halt in operations, highlighting ... More growing concerns over aviation cybersecurity and digital infrastructure resilience.getty Late Sunday evening on July 21, 2025, Alaska Airlines...

AP Business SummaryBrief at 9:00 a.m. EDT

Alaska Airlines resumes operations after tech outage grounds all flights Alaska Airlines says it has resumed operations following an undisclosed technical error affecting its entire system for approximately three hours. The carrier says in a...

AP Business SummaryBrief at 8:01 a.m. EDT

Alaska Airlines resumes operations after tech outage grounds all flights Alaska Airlines says it has resumed operations following an undisclosed technical error affecting its entire system for approximately three hours. The carrier says in a...

AP Business SummaryBrief at 2:07 p.m. EDT

More Americans shift money from checking and savings to accounts with investment income, study says WASHINGTON (AP) — New research finds that more Americans are shifting their money from checking and savings accounts into financial vehicles that...

As Trump and Elon feud, government demand for Starlink grows

As Trump and Elon feud, government demand for Starlink grows

Along Alaska’s rugged coastline — where the distance between ports can span dozens of miles and vast uninhabited wilderness — residents and crew aboard the state’s ferry system can connect quickly to the internet for crucial information via...

Carter’s Hope: After U.S. government killed off Western wolves, a bold experiment brought them back

Carter’s Hope: After U.S. government killed off Western wolves, a bold experiment brought them back

Mike Phillips, Jim Evanoff, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services Director Mollie Beattie, Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Mike Finley and U.S. Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt carry the first crate with a wolf in it to the Crystal Bench Pen...

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