A young Denali Park grizzly bear that decided people are to play with has been handed a death sentence. Officials at the 6-million-acre wilderness park in the heart of the 49th state […]
The AK gas pipeline obsession
Awash in can-do enthusiasm fueled by construction of the 800-mile-long, crude-oil-hauling Trans-Alaska Pipeline System almost 40 years ago, oil producers on the 49th state’s North Slope made a good-faith, never-fulfilled offer to […]
Internet junkies
If you are reading this, you’re probably an addict. There is no way to soft pedal it. There’s a new Nielsen study out, and it indicates the average American now spends more […]
Mountain biker’s bear death
A mountain biker killed by a bear in Montana appears to mark only the second time a cyclist has died after such a confrontation, but there could be lessons in the […]
Now we go Into Reality
That there was some great meaning to the sad, 1992 death of a young man in an abandoned bus near the northern edge of Denali National Park and Preserve became a modern-day […]
Climate change gone wild
Seventy degree temperatures in Alaska in March. Sockeye salmon swarming to Alaska rivers thinking May is June. Glaciers fleeing the coast to search for mountain cold. Get out the beach umbrellas. The […]
Alaska’s deadly waters
In the remote northeast corner of the 19-million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, on the far side of the northernmost mountain range on the North American content long removed from any hint of […]
Bear bites Denali hiker, flees
A grizzly bear sow with cubs bit a hiker in Denali National Park and Preserve on Thursday, according to the National Park Service, but she doesn’t appear to be as dangerous as […]
Gasline financing questioned
UPDATE: This story was updated at 10:47 p.m., June 24, 2016 to include a biography of the staff at MustReadAlaska.com The possibility Alaska Gov. Bill Walker is preparing to declare Prudhoe Bay […]
Bring our fish home
More than 36,000 pounds of prized Alaska salmon and halibut now sitting in Seattle could be headed north again if the Fairbanks Community Food Bank can raise the money to cover the […]