Even in these global warming days, Alaska can still make residents of the 49th state shiver in their socks. Coming off the warmest year in state history, January 2020 slapped the residents […]
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Maximum efficiency
One of the most contentious fisheries in the waters off the Alaska coast is now making claims to being one of the world’s climate-friendliest sources of protein. Citing research from the University […]
Damn polar vortex
Coming off the warmest year in Alaska history, it’s been a rough month in the outpost community of McGrath on the north side of the Alaska Range. The temperature there Thursday night […]
Tangling the truth
In a sure sign that the always contentious Cook Inlet meeting of the Alaska Board of Fisheries is approaching, the state’s largest newspaper is propagandizing on the value of the state’s […]
Dopey dogs
Alaska’s biggest sporting events have yet to hit the trail and already there is a doping controversy. This time it involves the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race from Fairbanks to […]
Close call
Updated Jan. 29, 2020: The Jeep has been freed. A small army of fellow four-wheel-drive adventurers helped pull it from the ice on Tuesday. Colby Davis shot an excellent video is […]
In our genes
With the U.S. more bitterly divided than any time since the Vietnam War, is it better or worse to know that archeologists digging in northern Spain have concluded that the divisive […]
‘Seward’s Folly’ redux
Coming off the warmest year in Alaska history, the state’s largest city appears headed for the fifth or sixth coldest January in the local climate record. As of Wednesday, the average monthly […]
Government spin
stat A Utah man who became the subject of a dramatic story about his rescue from what was portrayed as near death in the wilds of Alaska earlier this month is now […]
Phantom project
Behind the natural gas “window” to the fiscal promised land that former Alaska Gov. Bill Walker and his half-million-dollar, Texan hired-hand spent four years trying to sell Alaskans, it now appears there […]
