Tough times continue for Alaska fishing industry As the commercial salmon fishing in Alaska heads into the heart of its summer season, the 49th state would appear to be reliving the […]
Trainwreck fishery
$5.5 billion musher
New ‘spirit of the Iditarod’ Got a few hundred thousand dollars lying around that you’d like to spend? If so, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has a deal for you. Welcome […]
Truest danger
What you don’t know can kill you Twenty-nine-year-old Nick Vizzini had a passion for skiing. “I ski a lot,” he wrote on the Facebook page of the Four Wheel Camper Project […]
Beautiful & deadly
McKinley’s first death of the year Brooklyn-born Alex Chiu fell in love with the mountains of the West, found himself lured north to Alaska by the biggest of them all, and tragically […]
Life in Anchorage
No Safe Space Seventy-nine-year-old Gladys Graf did everything right on her late-morning walk in Anchorage’s Midtown on Monday, and then she died. Anchorage Police say that before crossing busy Benson Boulevard at […]
Killer road
A news analysis The Anchorage Police Department is refusing to identify the hit-and-run driver who a week ago killed 33-year-old Aaron Cleveland on Brayton Road, a state-designated “bike route” that has […]
Deadly easy
The ‘Soft American’ grows ever softer With the unUnited States of America having become, collectively, the fattest, unfittest, unhealthiest and, in some ways, unfriendliest nations in the Western world thanks to the […]
Big problems
When bears become ‘friends’ Take it from Ann Bryant, executive director of the Tahoe, Calif., Bear League, bears don’t kill people because “we’ve never had a bear kill anybody.” This is what she […]
A bad look
Anchorage has become an unmentionable The data-crunching website Wallet Hub is out with its list of “Best Summer Travel Destinations (2025)” and guess what, the 76th largest city in the country […]
Fading fish
Feds sued to protect king salmon With the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in chaos amid a Trump administration reorganization, the Wild Fish Conservancy has decided it is time to […]
