Rescue efforts save one, but cold kills another Update: This story has been updated to include the names of the rescued climbers as reported on the Facebook page of Alpine Club Malaysia […]
1 safe, 1 dead
A dangerous place
Death stalking two mountaineers on Denali With the temperature near the summit of North America’s tallest mountain pushing toward 30 degrees below zero on this evening, hopes were fading for two unidentified […]
Journalism 2024
All the news that’s fit to print The big Alaska news lighting up the internet over the Memorial Day holiday came from Denali National Park and Preserve, and it was arguably good […]
News fiction
Believing things doesn’t make them true Update: A state medical examiner has now determined that Homer’s Dale Chorman died of a single blunt blow to the back of head and/or cervical […]
Falling prices
Copper River salmon prices nosedive After Alaska’s 2023 commercial salmon season from hell, the 2024 season is underway with more whimper than bang. Gone is the traditional early season show that […]
Endangered Chinook
NOAA to consider listing Alaska King Salmon In a move that could have widespread fishery implications for salmon fisheries across Alaska, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration today announced that an […]
Medical tribalism
The politicization of everything Is there nowhere free from politics anywhere in these Ununited States anymore? Scientists once tried to at least make an effort to avoid the societal cesspool of politicization, […]
A quiet champ
Iditarod loses one of the good ones Nineteen-eighty-three Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champ Rick Mackey, who died this week at the age of 71, was the quiet man in the Mackey […]
Bad science
It wasn’t the droplets With the Covid-19 pandemic slipping into the world’s rearview mirror, the photographs that helped drive mask hysteria and six-foot distancing are now being refuted by viral experts advising […]
Salmon subterfuge
How America stole Canada’s fish HOUSTON, British Columbia, Canada – Here in the “Steelhead Capital of the World” along the banks of the Bulkley River, the fish still come back from the […]
