With annual returns of prized Chinook salmon to Alaska’s fabled Copper River creeping steadily downward, the state Board of Fisheries is meeting in Valdez to consider reducing the spawning goal for the […]
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Own history
Some of the assets of the bankrupt and now-gone Alaska Dispatch News – which once claimed it had no assets – are up for sale. From 5 until 7 p.m. today and […]
Norway bound
The high-power, California public relations firm Dallas Seavey said he hired to investigate accusations he doped his dogs in this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has made it official; the four-time Iditarod […]
Snow, nooooo
Yet again, Mother Nature is messing with urban Alaskans who love that classic White Christmas punctuated with the roar of engines and the sweet smell of two-cycle engine exhaust. A lack […]
Killer roads
A 22-year-old University of Alaska Fairbanks student who stopped his car along the George Parks Highway to help a snowmobiler with problems is dead as a result of one of the 49th […]
Idiocracy
Commentary Sometimes, if you have spent your life in journalism, it is hard to look at some of what passes for reportage these days without being forced to ponder whether a once-valued […]
Cold kills
Update: This story has been updated to reflect Keith Stephens’ condition. A Willow man is in a coma in a hospital in Alaska’s largest city after apparently slipping on snow-covered and icy […]
Bombogenesis
Dutch Harbor, Alaska – bombed by the Japanese Navy during World War Two – was bombed again Sunday, but this time it was Mother Nature delivering the blow. A huge, low-pressure weather […]
Arctic oil ‘boued
Once more there is talk of oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), and once more there is worry of a threat to the Porcupine caribou herd which calves in […]
Avalanche death
A highly experienced and well-known Anchorage skier has been identified by Alaska State Troopers as the man killed in a pre-Thanksgiving Day avalanche about 60 miles north of the state’s largest city. […]