Despite government officials and residents of Alaska’s largest city quietly racking up more than two dozen bear kills this year, there were still a few bruins out roaming snow-covered Anchorage as Thanksgiving […]
Bear battles
Evermore competition
News analysis “We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.” Microsoft founder Bill Gates […]
Masked and unmasked
News analysis A Danish study of masking branded as “controversial” long before it saw the light of day finally emerged in print on Wednesday only to add to the confusion over […]
Warming winners
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game believes global warming will continue to smile on the sockeye salmon of Bristol Bay and has forecast another huge return of the fish for next […]
Who you gonna call?
WARNING: “We are on the cusp or teetering towards a troposphere-stratosphere-troposphere coupling event that includes both a strong stratospheric polar vortex and a positive Arctic oscillation.” This on Monday from Dr. Judah […]
Saved by truck
An Anchorage man who reported intentionally running his truck into a moose is being praised as a hero by his neighbors on social media. They have good reason if the story told […]
Gorilla warfare
In these times when America seems possibly more divided than at any time since the Civil War, is it good to discover how much more civilized our world than that of our […]
Sadly lost
Aged Alaska mountain man Duane Ose has been discharged from a Fairbanks hospital and is now on Facebook looking for help and railing against those who rescued him from deep in […]
Vanishing kings
A controversial study pointing to the ocean – and not dams or other freshwater issues – as responsible for a 65 percent decline of Chinook salmon along the North American coast has […]
Deadly attraction?
A small, single-engine floatplane delivered 40-year-old Nathan Campbell deep into some of the wildest country in the heart of Alaska in May. He confessed to the pilot on the way that he […]
