Kyle Hopkins

On a nearly deserted Alaska island, you pay to keep hundreds of empty buildings wired for internet This story was originally published by ProPublica and Anchorage Daily News. On an island in the Bering Sea 1,200 miles from Anchorage, Alaska, sits an aband... See more

This article was produced in partnership with ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network. ADAK, Alaska (Tribune News Service) — On an island in the Bering Sea 1,200 miles from Anchorage sits an abandoned house on an abandoned Navy base. There is no furniture, a... See more

U.S. phone customers pay more than $340,000 a year for an Anchorage company to keep homes and buildings on Alaska’s Adak Island wired for obsolete internet service. All but a few of them sit empty. This article was originally published by ProPublica. On a... See more

On an island in the Bering Sea 1,200 miles from Anchorage, Alaska, sits an abandoned house on an abandoned Navy base. There is no furniture, and the wind blows through broken windows. The last people to live here moved away long ago. Yet a bright orange p... See more

Reporting Highlights - Internet Gold Rush: Alaskan companies are getting billions of dollars in public telecom subsidies, yet the state ranks last in internet speed. - Subsidizing a Ghost Town: The federal government pays one company more than $350,000 a ... See more