KENAI RIVER – Sockeye salmon swarmed the mouth of Alaska’s most popular stream on Wednesday. Invisible beneath the surface of the muddy glacial water, they returned in such numbers a 10-year-old with […]
Best of days
Winning feels good
Scientists at Cornell University and the European University Institute have confirmed what fans of National Football Leagues team have known for a long time: When your team wins, the worst officiating doesn’t […]
Humpies invade
KENAI RIVER – An unusual, odd-year flood of pink salmon into Alaska’s most popular river has state fisheries biologists scratching their heads, but a fishing guide here thinks he has the answer: […]
Long night
Twenty-two-year-old Anchorage hiker Ben Seaman can be thankful it is summer and the weather is friendly because in the mountains of Alaska help is often far away even if it appears close. […]
Cooked king salmon
This story was updated on July 16, 2019 An Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist on the Kuskokwim River is suggesting water temperatures got so high during the state’s July heat […]
Whineland
Once Alaska was home to the toughest, most adaptable people on the planet. And then the white folk showed up. Since then it’s been pretty much all downhill, starting with the barely […]
Future fish
With the cowboys of the sea now busy with their annual Alaska salmon roundup, the farmers who transformed the industry have opened an algal oil plant in Nebraska as their next step […]
Toothed invaders
Add muskellunge to the list of south-coastal Alaska’s modern-era, climate-change invaders. First it was northern pike, then largemouth bass, and now the Monsters of the Midwest. Historically, the largest of the pike […]
Tech nearly kills
A New York man rescued after a week in the Alaska wilderness in 2016 is now blaming the whole affair on his sat phone and suing Globalstar, the company that runs the […]
Sockeye rising
News analysis As the sockeye salmon return to the rivers of Cook Inlet and the famed late-run king salmon nose into the Kenai River, there are reasons for fishermen of all persuasions […]
