I live in a state overloaded with guns, and I fear death. But it is not the guns that scare me. It is motor vehicles. Today it was a woman with a […]
Killers on the road
Lost at sea?
Commercial salmon seiners in Alaska’s Prince William Sound looked to have hit the jackpot on Thursday with a six-hour fishery opening netting an estimated 2.1 million pink salmon, according to the Alaska […]
Bearanoia victim
Since 26-year-old Angel Heaton shot herself in the hip with the .40-caliber handgun intended to save her from bears, she’s pretty much become the poster child for the worst that can go […]
Don’t do it!
What Not To Do Wednesday (#WNTDW) – the Facebook fable of the week from the Anchorage Police Department (APD) – today became its own #WNTDW. Shortly after the day’s #WNTDW popped up […]
Humpies gone
Concern is edging toward panic for commercial salmon seiners in Alaska’s Prince William Sound where an expected big return of pink salmon has gone missing. The Alaska Department of Fish and […]
Down, down, down
Last week commercial fishermen from Cook Inlet were in court arguing the Alaska Department of Fish and Game had unfairly cut their fishing time to protect a struggling run of world-famous Kenai […]
Sour sourdoughs
An old northland joke describes an Alaska sourdough as someone who has gone sour on the country but lacks the dough to pay for passage to friendlier environments to the south. And […]
Endless battle
Update, Aug. 5, 2019: Judge Jason Gist today issued an 11-page decision wherein he point-by-point rejected just about every complaint made by the Cook Inlet Fishermen’s Fund, and then summed the essence […]
Fishing fair
Unhappy about state efforts to protect a struggling run of Kenai River king salmon, Cook Inlet commercial fishermen are headed into court today to ask a judge to order the Alaska Department […]
The killer bus
All deaths in the Alaska wild are not the same. When someone goes looking for danger and ends up dead, that’s on him or her. But when people are tempted into tragedy […]
