A former BP oilfield engineer who thought he could seize control of much of Anchorage’s upper Potter Valley by buying an old homestead and then blocking off a historic road has been […]
Gone & forgotten?
The Alaska Department of Law appears to have no interest in whether retired Kotzebue teacher Paul Atkins was illegally collecting permanent fund dividends (PFDs) for years, but says that if anyone else […]
Bear dance?
A bizarre video has emerged of what has been described as a Sunday “bear attack” along the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail in Anchorage. The shaky film taken by another walker on the […]
Bear attack
Anchorage witnessed its first bear attack on Sunday, but details are sketchy. Update: The Anchorage Police Department has yet to provide any details on what it described as a “bear attack” […]
Tough loss
Less than two months after Cook Inlet commercial drift gillnet fishermen hailed a major victory for their fishery in federal waters, the commercial fishermen who set gillnets along the Inlet’s eastern […]
Another PFD thief?
Alaska state records now indicate that Kotzebue school teacher Paul Dewitt Atkins – who was earlier this month convicted of being a non-resident hunter posing as a resident for years – filed […]
The muskox killer
For 22 years, Paul Atkins, an avid hunter and outdoorsman, taught school on the edge of the Bering Sea in the remote community of Kotzebue where the winters are long and cold […]
For the fish
An Alaska judge on Monday decided that salmon matter more than money and turned down a request that he order state Commissioner of Fish and Game Doug Vincent-Lang to reopen commercial setnet […]
Unhappy fishermen
KENAI – Friday found the beaches at the mouth of Alaska’s most fought-over river woefully short of dipnetters willing to help stop the possible “over-escapement” of sockeye salmon so feared by the […]
Deadly fun
Icy waters have killed another packrafter, the third in the last eight years to die in one of the rivers of glacier-dominated eastern Alaska. Forty-ninth state adventurer Roman Dial once described the […]