The inevitable has happened in Wyoming where a hunting guide who doused an attacking grizzly bear with pepper spray is dead. It is impossible, however, to say definitively that the bear spray […]
Bear spray fail?
Fees for Chinese
Looking to join the Alaska fatbike craze? Buy quick. A billion dollars worth of bikes and bike components are the latest of made-in-China goods to be hit by Trump tariffs, and some […]
Suffering lettuce?
An international team of scientists has discovered that plants have feelings, too. When insects nibble on the leaf of a rockcress plant, the group led by Masatsugu Toyot of Japan’s Saitama University […]
State of stagnation
Famous as the state of economic boom and bust, Alaska appears to have reached something of a new, no-growth stability as its population ages in place, and its economy begins to diversify […]
“The Blab”-ber
News analysis Alaska is going to end the 2018 salmon season with a catch a little over half that of last year despite another phenomenal return of Bristol Bay sockeye salmon. But […]
Ever larger us
If you are sitting at your computer reading this, you might be doing as much to damage your health as if you’d just lit a cigarette. But you probably already knew that. […]
New AK record
An Alaska state record largemouth bass was pulled from Anchorage’s Sand Lake over the Labor Day weekend. It measured about seven and a half inches and was a first-ever catch in the […]
Future fish
A News Analysis If Alaska commercial fishing interests think they now have problems with tariffs stemming from the simmering trade war with China, they best not look too far into the future […]
A girl on a boat
UPDATE: The Port of Anchorage says that one of its employees was at the tiller of the boat on which KTUU’s Rebecca Palsha was filming and no whales were disturbed. Port spokesman […]
Sister versus brother
One of the saddest family feuds in recent Alaska history came to an end Friday with the state Supreme Court unanimously ruling that Robert Sheldon – the son of legendary Bush pilot […]
