A group of commercial fishermen from Bristol Bay have gone to court to challenge a decision by the Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association (BBRSDA) to spend about a quarter […]
Pebble ripples
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Gone fish?
Officials with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game say they’re sticking with a forecast for another boom year for pink salmon despite a first-ever, international survey of the Gulf of Alaska […]
Dew point
Johnson Pass Trail – Aside from the noisy crunch of fat tires on rough, white pavement and the Paris-Roubaix-like bouncing of the bike at speed, the riding here Saturday on one of […]
Empowering tribes
Hoping to protect rural Alaska women from violence, the U.S. House of Representatives wants to establish “Indian Country” in the 49th state and grant Native tribes police powers over non-Natives on what […]
Hot, hot, hot
Parts of America’s normally frozen north appear to be on the edge of some sort of time warp wherein the climate months – as opposed to the calendar months – jump from […]
One man’s war
H The Supreme Court of the United States of America has now elevated Alaskan John Sturgeon to the pantheon of those who shaped the character of the freedom-loving 49th state. It only […]
A dog dies
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is now saying it is unclear as to whether a dog that died at the end of the 1,000-mile race across Alaska this year fell victim […]
New age-old
Update: This story was revised on March 26, 2019 to reflect the findings of a gross necropsy on the dog that died in the Iditarod. When Richie Beattie’s dog Oshi died […]
Alaska test
Given that Alaska is as much a state of mind as a state – think long-dead author Jack London’s “Call of the Wild’ which was actually set in the Yukon Territory but […]
Going broke
News analysis Alaska is Alice Rogoff, and if you watched the rise, the fall and the implosion of what was the Alaska Dispatch News, you know how that story ended. […]
