Black Press Media, the owner of three Alaska newspapers, is seeking a new owner as it restructures its finances. The Canadian company’s U.S. branch, Sound Publishing, owns the Juneau Empire, the ...

The Alaska Senate voted without dissent Monday to allow the Department of Natural Resources to stop publishing some public notices in local newspapers. Senators approved Senate Bill 68 by a 17-0 vote.

Reporters and editors at the Homer News and Peninsula Clarion announced their resignations on Monday, citing a decision by the papers’ corporate owners to bow to political pressure to amend an article ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An online competitor announced plans Tuesday to buy Alaska’s largest daily newspaper. Alaska Dispatch Publishing LLC, the parent company of the online newspaper the Alaska ...

Newsroom staff at the Anchorage Daily News, the state’s largest newspaper, have voted to unionize, according to election results published Tuesday by the National Labor Relations Board. The vote was ...

Alaska legislators are mulling a bill that would harm local media by removing the requirement that public notices related to sale and removal of water be placed in newspapers. Budget hawks have for ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The new owners of Alaska's largest newspaper have laid off reporters, editors and other employees just days after a bankruptcy judge approved the sale the Alaska Dispatch News ...

The Anchorage Daily News was the smallest newspaper and the first in the state to earn the medal for public service in 1976. It then won two more. By Sam Roberts Howard Weaver, a self-described “poor ...

The publisher of Alaska's largest newspaper is responding to a lawsuit filed over alleged unpaid rent and other fees. Anchorage television station KTUU reported Alaska Dispatch News publisher Alice ...

Longtime journalist and editor Howard Weaver in 2012 in Sacramento. Weaver, an Alaska native and former vice president of news for Sacramento Bee parent McClatchy, died Thursday at the age of 73. Carl ...

Senate President Gary Stevens, R-Kodiak, is seen before the start of a session of the Alaska Senate on Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) The Alaska Senate voted without ...