Update: Just after this story posted, the catch numbers for Saturday’s commercial opening were reported. There was a catch of 150,120 sockeye on the day bringing the season total to 912,069 sockeye. […]
The curtain falls
Polar bear bull
Little did wildlife biologist James Wilder understand the hype surrounding bear attacks and climate change when he agreed to serve as lead author on a scientific paper examining polar bear attacks on […]
Road trip!
can SEWARD HIGHWAY – Not much can beat a road trip across the nation’s wildest state to lift the spirits. Where Alaska rates on the overall scenery-scale is debatable, but it’s certainly […]
Bear safe
Among the safest places you can be in Alaska if charged by a bear is in a bus, car, truck or sport utility vehicle. Just ask Cody Kunau (pronounced Kun-oe […]
Suffering Little Su
Update: This story has been updated and extensively rewrwitten to reflect the Little Susitna finally made escapement and to include information from a state genetics study of Chinook from Northern Cook […]
Go directly to jail
The latest victim of an Alaska bear attack has been jailed. Anchorage Police identified her as 58-year-old Christine Chalp, who was in a tent jumped by a bear in Alaska’s largest […]
Zuckerberg’s fake news
Seven months ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was voicing plans to combat fake news on the social media website. And this week he’s in Alaska doing what else? Creating fake news. […]
Denali tough times
Alaska’s big mountain has been angry this year. Snow, cold, wind and rain have hammered 20,310-foot Mount Denali, and climbers hoping to stand atop the highest point on the North American […]
Bear spray, yes or no?
In the wake of a bear attack in which bear spray didn’t work, in a world with animal attacks trending upward, more than a few Alaskans are pondering the effectiveness of the popular […]
Bearly ignorant bliss
Commentary Alaska’s mainstream media has dialed up the perfect solution to the fear gripping the 49th state in the wake of two extremely rare, fatal bear attacks in two days in June: […]
