Here’s the local coverage of the situation in Emmonak, including some video footage from Dennis Zaki. And speaking on the “we saw this coming” platform is Rep. Les Gara, who was featured heavily. I’m glad someone is out there reminding everyone that this was not an unpredictable surprise. It is also good to know that [...]

Dennis Zaki just checked in.  He is heading out for Emmonak today at 2:30 from Bethel.  While he was there he saw the finish of the Kuskokwim 300, and got a great interview on the fuel crisis with local newspaper owner Kelly Lincoln.  You can see a photo of the winner, musher Mitch Seavey at [...]

Dennis Zaki is busy in Bethel today with a full schedule.  Tomorrow he’s off to St. Mary’s and then Emmonak to continue documenting the situation there. Thanks to all the Mudflatters out there with ears to the ground who have taken the time to keep me posted on the situation in the villages from different [...]

Just threw out an email to Dennis Zaki of The Alaska Report, hoping he wasn’t still in Anchorage waiting for the Bethel airport to open.  I just got a response back.  Dennis is in Bethel, and just getting settled in!  He arrived right before they closed the airport again. He’s got a couple interviews lined [...]

Thanks to outstanding fundraising efforts, our intrepid videographer, Dennis Zaki is packed up and ready to go to Emmonak to put the eyes of the wider community on Alaska’s rural energy crisis. He’s actually been packed up and ready to go for a couple days now. He’ll be flying in to Bethel, and traveling on [...]