“Ladies and gentlemen, the conflict in the Middle East is temporary. The true forever war is the national Democrats’ war against Alaska oil and gas and our jobs. That’s the forever war,” - U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, at a campaign rally with President Donald Trump in Wasilla on Oct. 13.
A U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft refuels from a KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft during Operation Epic Fury, March 31, 2026. (U.S. Air Force photo)
By James Brooks
At a rally in Wasilla on Tuesday, President Donald Trump and Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan said America’s war with Iran is worth the resulting increased cost of fuel and food for Americans.
“No matter what it is, it’s a small price to pay for stopping them from having a nuclear weapon,” Trump said of Iran.
Damage in Kwigillingok from ex-Typhoon Halong is seen on Oct. 16, 2025. (Photo provided by the Alaska National Guard)
By Jenni Monet
For decades, Alaska’s frontline climate communities have grappled with two questions: Where to move? And who pays?
Waves roll in on a Cook Inlet beach north of Anchor Point on Oct. 23, 2025. The Trump administration is planning a March oil and gas lease sale in federal waters beyond the shoreline. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
By Yereth Rosen
The Trump administration announced that it will hold an offshore lease sale in federal waters of Cook Inlet next March, about a year after a similar federal lease sale offering the same acreage drew no bids.
Sun Circle Farm is a 2.5-acre organic farm that produces vegetables, fruits and flowers for farmers markets and for a CSA service in Palmer, Alaska. (NRCS Alaska photo)
COMMENTARY
By Margaret Adsit
This summer, I stood with a landowner at the edge of a hayfield her parents cleared more than 60 years ago. Wisps of her grey hair caught in the wind, and her eyes narrowed as she looked out over her farmland ground, thinking about so many neighboring farms that have been converted to gravel pits and subdivisions.
“Converting this should be considered a sin,” she told me. “My parents would be sick to know what has happened to this valley. We need our farmers. We need our farmland.”
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