Apparently fueled by a warming Bering Sea, the 2019 salmon boom in Northwest Alaska stretched far to the east along the Arctic Coast. Canadian officials are reporting they saw unprecedented numbers of salmon […]
Arctic fish boom
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Infernal combustion
SOMEWHERE OVER THE NORTHWEST – From 35,000 feet above Washington state – or, God forbid, the same altitude above the U.S. East Coast or Europe or India for that matter – it […]
Goodbye Bud
Cancer claims one of biggest characters in first Iditarod race
Reality bites
Alaska squeaked back in front of California in September to regain its position as the nation’s sixth-largest oil producer, but as U.S. oil production has grown in this decade it is stunning […]
This sucks
Rains of near biblical proportions were falling on Southcoastal Alaska on Monday to wash away what is normally winter. Had bad was it? See the top-10 worst below. But first the news. […]
Unconsidered costs
Why is it that when Americans face-off in debates about transportation infrastructure they invariably end up arguing about the wrong thing? Motorists rant about holier-than-thou, scofflaw cyclists and inattentive pedestrians that can […]
Blown away
The cliffs above the Seward Highway along Turnagain Arm just east of Alaska’s largest city were coming apart on Saturday as December rains and wind swept into Southcoastal Alaska. The Anchorage […]
Down and out
UPDATE: This story has been edited from an earlier version to include data from the 2018 Annual Traffic Report from the Municipality of Anchorage and details on the extent of Hannah Halverson’s […]
Old-way killer
On the trail in the bright of an LED beam on Wednesday night, it dawned that the old ways in Alaska don’t just die. They are murdered by technology. On an individual […]
Halibut bash
Get ready for a big halibut battle in South Coastal Alaska. With the big, tasty flatfish continuing to decline in number in the North Pacific Ocean, the fish war that commercial fishing […]
