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 ...

The parent company behind three Alaska newspapers has officially been sold to a group of investors, after filing for creditor protection to avoid bankruptcy in January. Black Press Media is the parent ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...