It was supposed to ease poverty in Alaska, but "the results on the ground, in rural community and economic development, have been deeply uneven, and nonexistent for many people who still gaze out to the blinking lights of the factory ships and wonder what happened." The story is a collaboration of InvestigateWest and the New York Times.

Alaska Airlines has owned this lucrative market, but now it will have an agile competitor.

"The people of Newtok, on the west coast of Alaska and about 400 miles south of the Bering Strait that separates the state from Russia, are living a slow-motion disaster that will end, very possibly within the next five years, with the entire village being washed away."