Commentary After surviving nights of terror, residents of a subdivision outside of the small Alaska community of Seward got to become villains. Their crime? They participated in or supported the killing of […]
On killing bears
The Gov strikes back
In the always entertaining world of Alaska politics, the Alaska business community has given Gov. Bill Walker a grade of “D” for his past year’s performance in office, and Walker has in […]
The Good Samaritan
Good Samaritan Antoinette Holliday is out of the hospital at last and rolling around in a wheelchair, but the driver who ran her down on a short, normally quite road in Alaska’s rural […]
“Yukon Fox” falls ill
Seventy-six-year-old musher Emmitt Peters from Ruby, the man who forever changed the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, was in the intensive care unit of the Fairbanks hospital on Saturday after suffering a […]
Disorderly and unsafe
The winter meeting of the Alaska Board of Fisheries is months away but already the weirdness has begun. At a work session in Kenai-Soldotna this week, the board spent some time kicking […]
Globe cool, AK warm
Once again, Alaska is bucking the trend or leading the way. You decide. The globe might have ended its run of record high temperatures in September, but the 49th state didn’t. While […]
Welcome to Alaska
Young, visiting photographer Christian McLeod from Ireland went looking for a taste of Anchorage’s big wild life on Sunday only to fall victim to one of the city’s oldest urban nightmares – […]
Counting big salmon
Once more the Alaska Department of Fish and Game is suggesting a lowering of the spawning goal for late-run Kenai River king salmon, the most revered fish in Alaska. The last time […]
We are all racists
f “My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference […]
She’s baaccckkkk…
No, this is not about Sarah Palin. It’s about “La Nina,” the girl who brings the cold north to Alaska. One couldn’t tell it on Saturday along the flanks of the Chugach […]
