Tom Hewitt

If a UNESCO World Heritage Site is erased by a million tons of ice and there’s no one around to see it, what does it mean?

April 1 will once again be Poem Day in the ADN’s letters space. If the muse strikes you, submit a poem to letters@adn.com.

April 1 will once again be Poem Day in the ADN’s letters space.

We want to recognize those acts of neighborliness, big and small, that make this a great place to live.

How do you go from the Fairbanks Curling Club to the Beijing Olympics? The short answer: 20-plus years of hard, unrelenting work.

The Anchorage Concert Chorus is singing in person again. I missed it more than I knew.

“You’re probably wondering why I’m calling out of the blue,” the voice on the phone said. “It’s about my dog — she’s been missing.”

All that a better world requires is that we give it more light, warmth and love.

The farthest-north baseball stadium in the United States is a little dated and deeply quirky.

The farthest-north baseball stadium in the United States is a little dated and deeply quirky.

You haven’t seen the inside of four walls since just after the summer solstice; I can’t even see the sky from the room where I’m writing this.

Those of us who got to see the whole arc of the Fairbanks Sears store’s tenure are feeling a little conflicted to see it go. Before it was a store we felt like we didn’t need, it was a store we desperately did.

Terrence Cole is one of perhaps half a dozen people who rise to the level of being the keepers of Alaska’s story, and he’s almost certainly the funniest of the bunch.

Iraqis may be eager to put the walls behind them, but in the interest of their well-being, it looks like they'll have to put up with them for at least a little while longer.

Iraqis may be eager to put the walls behind them, but in the interest of their well-being, it looks like they'll have to put up with them for at least a little while longer.

"Do you know anything about football?" asks Sgt. Jeremy Pitcher. "Because if you do, you're not allowed in the league."