The North Pacific Fisheries Council has taken an unprecedented step to try to increase the value of halibut to the Alaska economy by allowing a yet-to-be-created, charter-boat fishing entity to buy […]
Fish fight end?
One stinky story
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has decided 70 fat-tire cyclists and runners set to hit the Iditarod Trail in February pose a risk to the outhouse outside the iconic, one-room Rohn […]
Over but not done
A Monday decision by 27-year-old Arnold Demoski to plead guilty to charges related to harassing musher Aily Zirkle during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and running down the team […]
Iditarod dog death
After months of wrangling between a Fairbanks attorney and Alaska prosecutors, a Nulato man who was at the controls of a snowmachine that ran into and killed a dog in the Iditarod […]
Gone & forgotten
The days die fast in Alaska in December. The death of the light is no big deal when the moon is full and the skies are clear as they were earlier in […]
American justice
After years of putting up with the incessant barking of a neighbor’s dog, 69-year-old Jin Bong So of Anchorage finally couldn’t take it anymore and decided to do something about it. […]
Just fake enough
Commentary Enough with all this fretting about “fake news.” Let’s talk about what’s really irritating as a news consumer: Click baiting. It’s everywhere, and it’s almost enough make you stop reading news […]
The new landlord
Speculation was running rife and all over the place on Wednesday as the word came that President-elect Donald S. Trump, Alaska’s biggest landowner, had finally named a property manager. Montana Rep. […]
The minds of killers
The inexplicable execution of 16-year-old David Grunwald by Matanuska-Susitna valley teenagers he thought his friends has brought back horrible memories for some in the Interior Alaska city of Fairbanks. It was there […]
The truth police
Commentary The new truthers have latched onto “fake news,” and the need to clean up the internet. It is a good and holy cause, but the people invested in this idea are […]
