Thirty-six years ago today in a warm and sunny May of the sort better in Alaska than anywhere in the world, the state’s largest city was abuzz with the news of a […]
The way we were
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Cold-hot science
The latest climate modeling is raising big questions about the apparently Arctic-driven “new normal” weather that only a year ago and for years before looked to be transforming Anchorage into a […]
Unmasking
And so the year-long mask-charade ends with a big question: Can you trust your fellow citizens? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday said the vaccinated can now go […]
Frankenfish arrive
With a pitch for salmon “free of antibiotics and ocean contaminants,” AquaBounty Technologies has announced it is soon to harvest for sale in the U.S. the first of its genetically engineered “Frankenfish,” […]
Shades of Iditarod
The doped racehorse that won the Kentucky Derby on May 1 is on the verge of being disqualified, and the horse’s trainer is suggesting his race was sabotaged. Where have we […]
Danger fish
If reports coming from the Twentymile River approximately 45 miles east of Alaska’s largest city are to be believed, some six- to eight-inch long fish nearly killed a couple of people […]
The last cowboys
News analysis Alaska is expected to see another near-record salmon season this year with the Alaska Department Fish and Game forecasting a harvest of more than 190 million of the fish or […]
Hidden dangers
The 2021 Alaska Range climbing season has begun tragically with an unroped Colorado skier dead in a crevasse fall on the south spur of the Eldridge Glacier. According to officials with Denali […]
Threatened salmon?
Despite the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s 2021 forecast of another monster catch of 190 million salmon – more than twice the state’s average annual harvest in the 20th Century […]
Beach ball bear defense
Anchorage gun shop owner Niels Green found himself unarmed Thursday when a black bear confronted him at a distance of only a couple of feet on a footbridge near Seward, but he […]
