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 […]
Unmasking
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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 […]
The good news
Amid concerns about new, vaccine-resistant variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the U.S. and Alaska, and with the disease it causes ravaging India, it’s easy to overlook the fact that humans appear […]
Two Americas
PORT OF TACOMA – On the road for 2,500 miles through the American Heartland from near the Motor City that shaped the nation’s 20th century to the edge of the Pacific Ocean, […]
