As we settled in for the night, the two of us reminisced about our recent experience. Well, at least I reminisced. It…
The Father Andrew P. Kashevaroff State Library — APK for short — is also referred to as “SLAM.” That’s an…
This is the “All the News” edition of the lelandhale.com blog. Thanks to these dedicated journalists, there’s a record of…
The skipper and I arrived back in Valdez by midday, with the seine net in tow. Now came the (in)delicate…
LIVE! with Liz Raines and John Thompson on KTVA Anchorage to promote “What Happened in Craig: Alaska’s Worst Unsolved Mass…
Because I was dating his sister-in-law, because the Three Sisters took her name from, well, the three sisters in his…
We had the boat. We had the crew. We had groceries. We were shipshape. Even the engine was starting to purr,…
UPCOMING Appearances: Alaska Book Week. I’ll be there to talk about true-crime! Don’t worry if that’s not your thing — there’s…
It’s easy enough to say that Mark Coulthurst was ambitious, even driven, for success. That he was diversifying by working…
Mark Coulthurst’s story belongs to Blaine, WA., a small farming and fishing community between Bellingham and Vancouver, B.C.. It was…