Stefan Milkowski
State reporter
Call Stefan at 907-459-7577.
Stefan Milkowski, 30, covers state government and statewide issues. Originally from upstate New York, he moved to Fairbanks during a cold snap in December 2005. Before joining the News-Miner, Stefan studied writing at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City and wrote for a weekly paper in Massachusetts. He likes biking, canoeing, skiing, snowboarding and generally being outside. He's getting into hunting and fishing, too.
Recent Stories
- Scientists look to the past to predict the future of climate change
- Thursday, July 31, 2008
- FAIRBANKS -- One of the ways scientists make predictions about future changes is by studying what happened in the past when natural cycles caused waters to warm.
- Warming waters pose threats to Alaska salmon, could reorder marine ecosystems
- Thursday, July 31, 2008
- NENANA — A little after dawn on a cold October morning, Victor Lord loaded a flat-bottom boat with big plastic totes and set off slowly down the Tanana River.
- Melting permafrost poses threats to infrastructure, Alaska economy
- Wednesday, July 30, 2008
- BARROW –– Eugene Brower got out of his pickup truck, walked past a boat made of wood and seal skins, and opened the door to a small wooden shack. He lifted a rectangular cover in the floor and started to climb down into the ice cellar his father dug more than 50 years before.
“Ooh! It smells,” he said. - Alaska forests hit with more wildfires, infestations as climate changes
- Tuesday, July 29, 2008
- BONANZA CREEK — It was just getting cool when Glenn Juday went out to see his trees. The leaves were still on the birch and aspen, and the summer growing season was lingering. But it was already October, and gathering data would be much harder once it snowed. So Juday had to hurry.
- As Arctic sea ice recedes, coastal residents, marine mammals feel the effects
- Monday, July 28, 2008
- BARROW--On a warm night in September 2007, a walrus the size of a sofa hauled out on the beach in Barrow. He came ashore a little before dark behind Osaka Restaurant -- pretty much as close to downtown as you can get in the country’s northernmost city.
- Scientists who study the Earth's climate say humans are making it warmer
- Sunday, July 27, 2008
- FAIRBANKS—Twenty thousand years ago, it was so cold in North America -- and had been for so long -- that much of the continent was covered by ice two miles thick.
- Climate change in the land of frozen ground, fish and hardy trees
- Sunday, July 27, 2008
- FAIRBANKS – Alaska is changing, and not just in the booming suburbs or shrinking villages, but in the trees on the hillsides, the fish in the oceans, and the climate itself – the very things that make Alaska what it is.
- All-Alaska line remains in gas line debate, despite questions
- Saturday, July 26, 2008
- JUNEAU — Is a vote for TransCanada a vote against the “all-Alaska” pipeline?
- Energy proposal could cover Interior electricity costs
- Friday, July 25, 2008
- JUNEAU — A new proposal before state lawmakers would significantly reduce the cost of electricity for residents of Fairbanks, North Pole and other Interior Alaska cities.
- Alaska House reaffirms gas line vote
- Wednesday, July 23, 2008
- JUNEAU — The Alaska House of Representatives reaffirmed its support for TransCanada’s gas line plan Wednesday, but failed to approve a measure allowing the Canadian company to start work immediately upon final approval.