Scott Jensen
Alaska Dispatch News
Anchorage, AK, United States
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Winter ski training in July
For one week in each summer month, the APU Nordic and the U.S. Ski Teams train together high above Girdwood in a faux winter setting. The snow on Eagle Glacier at about 5,500 feet above sea level doesn't all melt away in temperatures that reach into the 50s. It's a perfect setting for these elite athletes to keep training for the next world competitions next year. → Read More
Kids test and crash drones
The Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program hosted 52 middle school students this week from across the state for a class on drone building, testing and operation. → Read More
Here is one man's obsession with 'Pokemon Go'
One player, Dimanche Lek, took some time to explain the game to Alaska Dispatch News. He played the Nintendo Gameboy version of "Pokemon" back in the 1990s. This week he says he's had to carefully craft his schedule between sleep, meals and a 50-hour workweek to get enough "Pokemon Go" into his life. → Read More
The making of 'Cars fly on the Fourth of July'
ADN multimedia journalist Scott Jensen explains his methods and camera equipment as well as storytelling techniques he used to produce a video of cars flying off a cliff at Glacier View. → Read More
Cars fly on the Fourth of July
Glacier View celebrated the Fourth of July with lots of food, a parade and an airplane flyover. They also launched three vehicles off the bluff. → Read More
If you're concerned about Alaska's economic challenges, maybe you could start a peony farm
Alaska Peony Distributors wants to encourage more local farmers to enter the peony market because Alaska’s community needs a higher quantity of flowers to attract a certain kind of customer. → Read More
Video: Gov. Bill Walker announces vetoes, PFD cut
After growing up in Anchorage, Scott Jensen embarked on a traveling TV photojournalism career that took him to big cities like Seattle, Portland and Minneapolis. He's back home now and produces video journalism for adn.com. → Read More
Fairbanks' home-grown, one-stop pot shop
Joining many of Alaska's budding marijuana businesses, Destiny Neade and her husband plan to open the retail portion of Frozen Budz this fall with an Alaska theme. → Read More
Celebrating Bodenburg Butte with a summit party
The party was to celebrate the closing of a real estate deal that transferred 40 acres from the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority to Great Land Trust. → Read More
Watch an expert demonstrate how to use bear spray
Many Alaskans buy a can of bear spray without ever firing it. Here's what you need to know if you find yourself one-on-one with a bruin in the Alaska wilderness. → Read More
Fairbanks farmer prepares to grow cannabis
Ultimately, it wasn't difficult for Rosie Creek Farm owner Mike Emers to make the decision. → Read More
Mountain View sculpture is a labor of love for this Anchorage artist
On Saturday morning, the Anchorage neighborhood of Mountain View will celebrate its latest public art sculpture at the corner of Mountain View Drive and Park Street. → Read More
Chefs compete using only camp stoves
Each spring, the Anchorage Museum pits its Muse restaurant chefs against foodie guests from the community in an “Iron Chef” style cookoff in which competitors can use only camp stoves. This year, Heather Kelly, owner of Heather’s Choice Meals, created a simple camp meal of deviled eggs, salmon, green beans and rice. Muse chef Brad Harris created … Continue reading Chefs compete using only camp… → Read More
Anchorage chef shares a cannabis recipe, and a warning
In order to feel the full psychoactive effects of marijuana, the plant must first be decarboxylated. Most often this process is done by adding heat. “Which is why it gets you high when you smoke it,” said Anchorage cannabis chef Russell Gleason, who has 20 years of experience cooking, and medicating, with cannabis. “Now the deal on that is, … Continue reading Anchorage chef shares a cannabis… → Read More
Video: Anchorage teen wins a car for perfect attendance
An East High School junior won a new Jeep Renegade from Lithia on Tuesday afternoon, but she can’t even drive it. Sixteen-year-old Kendra Nethery made it clear she has her learner's permit. Now Kendra has extra incentive to earn her Alaska driver's license. She says she wants to take her new wheels on the road this summer for fun outdoors activities, especially camping. → Read More
Photos: Spend a week in Southcentral and plan your future
Senior fever doesn’t exist for these graduating high school students from the Bering Strait School District. This week they visited vocational training programs, colleges and businesses in Seward, Palmer and Anchorage. → Read More
Video: Bring Your Child to Work Day at the Anchorage Museum
The Anchorage Museum allowed a few visitors special access to the staging area of the live animal exhibit for Bring Your Child to Work Day on April 28, 2016. → Read More
How this Alaskan is turning an enormous garage into a marijuana grow operation
Josh Tobin expects to get his grow license from the state in early June. At that point he plans to begin growing -- and he'll have to stop smoking marijuana on the premises. Until then, he partakes. → Read More
Why is this one tree on Anchorage's Park Strip covered with ribbons?
Every year, a group of people with one thing in common tie ribbons of different colors around a tree at Ninth Avenue and G Street in downtown Anchorage. → Read More
Want to open a pot shop in Alaska? This entrepreneur has some advice for you.
Marijuana establishment license applicant Bryant Thorp estimates that by the time money begins rolling in in September, he will have invested about a quarter of a million dollars on all his expenses including property, fees and grow equipment. → Read More