With shows like "Deadliest Catch" and "Bering Sea Gold" returning for more, and lots more reality TV on the docket, Alaska is a hotspot for unscripted television. Is there any end in sight? And is it good for Alaska?
First, there was life on the high seas with fishermen from Dutch Harbor. Then came Ariel Tweto flying wild, which was followed by Sarah Palin and the treasure seekers. Now get ready to meet the real rural Alaskans -- the Hailstones.Alaska Dispatch and Arctic Sounder staff
Thirty Kiana School students recently took part in a week-long filmmaking workshop taught by two Alaska companies, one local, one based in Anchorage.Carey Restino
Are women just too wimpy to cut it in the Alaska wild, or is National Geographic just too cowardly to put them on the air? It's a question that has to be asked with the new reality TV show "Ultimate Survival Alaska" due out this month as an all-boy affair.Craig Medred
This weekend's choices for the Anchorage area include Spring Carnival, Faust, Motion City Soundtrack, Clark James Mishler's opening, Culmination, Consign49 and more.Ben Anderson, Katie Medred and Suzanna Caldwell
Will 230 small and isolated Alaska communities lose the free TV signal that helps connect them to the outside world? Without a technology overhaul and investment by state lawmakers, programming on Alaska Rural Communications Service could go dark in 2015.Jill Burke
A casting call is going out for classic Alaska characters who also have a unique tie to the spirit world or other unexplained paranormal phenomenon, for a possible new show on a "major cable network."Alaska Dispatch
With oil industry tax cuts moving through the Alaska Legislature, a program intended to provide incentives to the state's developing film industry could be in line for a trip to the fiscal gulag.Pat Forgey
OPINION: If politicians want to cut government costs and avoid aid dependency abroad, they’ll support President Obama’s proposed reforms to US food aid and allow aid organizations to purchase food from local sources.Rachel Bergenfield
