Big Fourth of July holiday excitement came early to the tiny community of Halibut Cove on the tip of Alaska Kenai Peninsula when Alice Rogoff – the owner of Alaska’s largest newspaper, […]
Alice Rogoff crashes plane
Mountain biker’s bear death
A mountain biker killed by a bear in Montana appears to mark only the second time a cyclist has died after such a confrontation, but there could be lessons in the […]
Now we go Into Reality
That there was some great meaning to the sad, 1992 death of a young man in an abandoned bus near the northern edge of Denali National Park and Preserve became a modern-day […]
Tax the Alaska PIGS
COMMENTARY CHITINA – Alaska has a revenue problem of which everyone must by now be aware. But it also appears to have an untapped resource that has gone unconsidered: PIGS. No, we’re […]
Alaska’s deadly waters
In the remote northeast corner of the 19-million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, on the far side of the northernmost mountain range on the North American content long removed from any hint of […]
Bear bites Denali hiker, flees
A grizzly bear sow with cubs bit a hiker in Denali National Park and Preserve on Thursday, according to the National Park Service, but she doesn’t appear to be as dangerous as […]
Bring our fish home
More than 36,000 pounds of prized Alaska salmon and halibut now sitting in Seattle could be headed north again if the Fairbanks Community Food Bank can raise the money to cover the […]
Dead dog season
The temperature in Anchorage, Alaska hit 75 degrees on Wednesday and in the sun on the south-facing slopes of the Chugach Mountain above the city it was 80 or hotter. This was, […]
Reality news
Is it real, or is it “reality” news? You know, reality news as in “reality TV,” as in “it could be real, you know,” even if it probably isn’t. Can you say […]
Whale of an AK ride
A group of predominantly German tourists got a better than hoped for Alaska wildlife sightseeing cruise on Wednesday when they found themselves up close and personal with a humpback whale. “It was […]
