UPDATE: Mattanaw Mattanaw today turned to Facebook to offer his version of the alleged gunplay on Stewarts Road last week that led to him being charged with a felony for driving […]
One-man shoot out
Canada’s anger
Indignant that so many streams and rivers in Alaska are annually plugged with salmon while those to the south of the 49th state struggle, Canadian activists led by commercial fishermen and Native […]
Ultimate fish war
What the federal government has against guys like Oscar Evon is hard to figure out, but it must be something. Who you ask is Oscar Evon? Evon is the director of regional […]
Copper River bust
No sooner had the Alaska commercial salmon season begun amid reports of sky-high prices for Copper River kings and sockeyes than fishing was put on hold for lack of fish. Gillnetters were […]
Second climbing death
On the day the National Park Service retrieved the body of one dead climber from near the 20,300-foot summit of Mount Denali, another was entombed in the Kahiltna Glacier. The as-yet-unidentified Kahiltna […]
A sad end
Thirty-year-old, U.S. Army paratrooper Seth Michael Plant survived a tour of duty in the war zone that was Afghanistan only to die in the far north on Tuesday when he stepped on […]
First fatal
With a soldier dead at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) on the edge of Alaska’s largest city, the state’s first fatal bear attack of 2022 was making national news on Tuesday. First reported […]
Alaska kills
The 2022 climbing season in the Alaska Range is again off to a grim start with the first man up Mount Denali dead and a woman earlier flown out of the range […]
Clean fishing
The handwriting might be on the wall for the commercial gillnet fisheries targeting Columbia River salmon in the wake of a new study documenting how almost unbelievably clean it is to fish […]
Moose slayer
Alaska reality TV star and Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race musher Jessie Holmes appears to have set some sort of record this winter by killing at least four moose in defense of […]
