As the leaders in the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race were racing toward a halfway stop in the famed gold-mining town of Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada on Wednesday, the […]
Iditarod unrest
Overreach
An Alaskan who 35 years ago led a push to repeal the state’s subsistence priority law because he thought it a bad way to allocate wild, fish and game resources is […]
Blue-eyed halibut
Virtual river flatfish runs wild in Alaska
Fishing for felony
Not often do Alaska’s notorious fish wars take a turn toward jail. Usually they are the source of much stomping and snorting at public meetings, and maybe some gunwale banging at sea. […]
Iditarod in danger
Alaska’s “Last Great Race” – the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race – is on the verge of losing the support of both its competitors and sponsors and could collapse, a consultant to […]
One success
Alaska, a state mired in recession, got a bit of good news on Friday – it’s home to one at least business proving hugely successful in the cold, snowy north. The […]
To build a fire
About a week before Christmas, 26-year-old Mike Watkins took off on a snowmachine adventure in the foothills of the Alaska Range mountains about 100 miles north of the state’s largest city. He […]
Couch potatoes
If the latest data out from Strava, the global activity tracking website, is to be believed, Alaskans need to pull themselves off the couch and get moving. Either that, or they need […]
All ahead stop
An Alaska Department of Fish and Game plan to increase the productivity of Chinook salmon by killing more fish before they can get into the Copper River has been […]
Bombed
In Alaska, when it rains, it snows almost always somewhere. If you love snow, all you need to do is go north far enough, climb high enough, get close enough to […]
