Even when things are bad, it’s good to be a commercial fisherman in Alaska. In the fat years, salmon fill the nets, and they haul in boatloads of cash. And in the […]
Semi-annual bailouts
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Dangerous words
The news these days is so bad it could make you sick. Or so say researchers from Texas Tech University who studied what is being called “problematic news consumption.” “It has been […]
Relentless tech
As the Alaska commercial salmon fishery, once a mainstay of the 49th state economy, trundles along bound by decades-old rules designed to maximize inefficiency, the world keeps moving forward in the name […]
Armed and safer
News analysis A national survey of American gun owners conducted by a business professor at liberal Georgetown University is suggesting that the oft-repeated conclusion that a firearm makes your home more dangerous […]
Up, down fisheries
Despite a monster catch of sockeye salmon in Alaska’s Bristol Bay, the 2022 harvest of wild-caught Pacific salmon appears to be once again yo-yoing down toward an even-year low. Trade-X Foods – […]
The big chill
Dig out the cold-weather gear. The National Weather Service now says there’s a better than 90 percent chance that La Niña, that famous push of cold Pacific Ocean water north up the […]
Heroes and villains
Lance Mackey, the four-time winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race who lived his life fast and loose and broke rules both written and unwritten, is dead at the age of […]
Push for help
Wilderness rescues could soon be only a touch away on your wrist thanks to the technology in the newest Apple watch. Cue the debate on whether this is a good thing or […]
Road rage AK
A former BP oilfield engineer who thought he could seize control of much of Anchorage’s upper Potter Valley by buying an old homestead and then blocking off a historic road has been […]
Small victories
The 2022 fishing season might have left some commercial fishermen in Upper Cook Inlet mad as hell and wanting to do battle with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in court, […]
