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Nathaniel Herz

Nathaniel Herz is an Anchorage-based reporter and audio producer.


Stories

February 5, 2025

How some Alaska Natives lost their right to fish commercially

A permitting system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more profitable. But over the past 50 years, it has hollowed out many Indigenous coastal villages where residents no longer can earn a living by harvesting salmon.

May 6, 2024

This oil platform stopped pumping 30 years ago. Alaska still won’t make the owner tear it down.

Once offshore oil platforms drain their wells, the government has the power to force the companies that own them to tear the structures down. But the owners can put off that costly process using a strategy one critic calls “delay, deny and diddle around.” And in Alaska, the state has let them do it — for decades.

February 2, 2024

An appraiser told Anchorage its property was worth $3M. The city sold it to the former mayor for $2M.

The municipal board that approved the sale — and a below-market lease — includes two members with ties to former Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich, who also used to represent Alaska in the U.S. Senate.

September 26, 2023

Tesla needs graphite. Alaska has plenty. But mining it raises fears in nearby Native villages.

Graphite is a critical ingredient in the batteries needed to power America’s electric vehicle revolution. But every ounce of it is imported. A proposed mine in a remote part of Alaska would change that. But some of the people who live nearby fear it will endanger their way of life.

May 31, 2023

Alaska Gov. Dunleavy policy adviser who said ‘divorce is worse than rape’ resigns

Jeremy Cubas resigned from his $110,000 a year job as Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s pro-family policy adviser after Alaska Public Media and APM Reports revealed that Cubas defended Hitler, used racist slurs and said a man raping his wife is "an impossible act."

May 16, 2023

City contracts drive millions in pandemic profits for Anchorage soup kitchen

Bean’s Cafe cashed in big running the Sullivan Arena homeless shelter.


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