The growing Alaska sport of packrafting has tragically added to the number of drowning victims in America’s largest national park this year. Officials in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve along […]
Water kills again
Salmon accounting
A news analysis UPDATE: This story was edited on Aug. 7 to reflect the loss the city of Kenai took on the dipnet fishery, a historic city moneymaker, and to update in-river […]
Gone ‘bou
More bad news for Alaskans invested in local food security. First it was weak sockeye salmon runs in the Copper and Kenai rivers making fish hard to find. Now its declining caribou […]
Bears, bears, bears
UPDATE – This story was edited from the original to include the latest bear kill numbers in the greater Anchorage area. On the day the residents of Seward started fretting over how […]
Sockeye crisis
In a move unprecedented since the salmon-short days of the 1970s in the 49th state, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has halted commercial fishing in Cook Inlet and nearly all […]
When in Alaska….
The Anchorage Police Department is reporting a tourist visiting the 49th state from the Midwest picked up a female companion in the state’s largest city and ended up paying, with a $40,000 […]
Kenai collapse
News analysis UPDATE: The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is shutting down sockeye salmon fishing in the Kenai River from Cook Inlet to the Kenai Lake bridge in Cooper Landing starting […]
Hand-out news
The climbing season on North America’s tallest mountain is now well over, and if it feels like you missed it, well, there’s a reason. And that involves a story not about mountaineering, […]
Walker talks fish
With many in the Alaska fishing community asking what transpired when Gov. Bill Walker and Commissioner of Fish and Game Sam Cotten met with commercial fishermen in Kenai on Friday, a video […]
Wilderness lost
Alaska might be one of the last bastions of North American terrestrial wilderness, but the waters that wash up against its coasts are another story. A global search for marine wilderness found […]
