More than a year after the global pandemic throttled Alsaka’s largest industry, there are indications that far north tourism is on the comeback trail. Transits buses to the Eielson Visitor Center […]
Tourism climbing
No fish
SUNDAY UPDATE: The Copper River sockeye return looks to have gone from bad to worse. Even with the commercial fishery closed since last Monday and high tides pushing fish […]
Old dangers return
With the pandemic waning and travel resuming, people are back to suffering and dying the old-fashioned way in Alaska. Already it has been a tough year in Denali National Park and […]
Unvaxxed guv
More than a month after offering tourists free COVID-19 vaccine if they took an Alaska vax-ation, the governor of the nation’s largest state himself remains unvaccinated. Asked why on Thursday, Corey Allen […]
Dangerous love
Loving Alaska’s wildlife too much has nearly cost a Nikiski woman her life. According to Alaska State Troopers, 51-year-old Crystal Cook was trying to reunite a newborn moose calf and its mother […]
Furry friends
Armed with hundreds of trail cameras, scientists from across North America have come up with the data to form a list of the wildlife most and least comfortable around people. Most of […]
Sky-high prices
The Alaska commercial fishing season kicked off in earnest this week with the tide rising. Not the tide of the ocean, mind you, but the tide of the global economy which helped […]
Cold-hot science
The latest climate modeling is raising big questions about the apparently Arctic-driven “new normal” weather that only a year ago and for years before looked to be transforming Anchorage into a […]
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,” […]
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 […]
