That fashionable roof rack on which you spent $600, $800, $1,000 or more to haul all your recreational toys around Alaska? It’s destined to cost you a lot more than you ever […]
Looks good; guzzles gas
Dangerous waters
The subtle but dangerous difference between wild and urban Alaska was underlined this week by the tragic death of a mother and son on the Kobuk River and the combat-fishing rescue of […]
Bad news bear back?
Just when you thought it was safe to go into the park – Denali National Park that is – the Savage River troublemaker could be back. Or at least some grizzly bear […]
Dipnet bummer days
Spoiled by years of good fishing at the mouth of the Kenai River in mid-July, Alaska personal-use dipnetters seem primed to explode at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game for its […]
Goat got clicks
National and international news stories falsely claiming photographers drove an Alaska mountain goat to its death in the ocean off Seward have given the owner of the Seward City News.com a big […]
The media’s goat
Did you hear the one about how a “crowd hungry for photos” drove a poor mountain goat to its death in the sea offshore of Seward, Alaska?
Let’s go Into the Money
COMMENTARY With the state of Alaska facing a fiscal crisis that calls for both cutting the cost of state government and raising state revenues, the time has come to cash in on […]
Bear, moose victim wakes
On the day after the Alaska Department of Fish and Game revealed its conclusion that a bear attack cum moose stomping on the edge of an upscale Anchorage neighborhood a month ago […]
Fishing trip turns deadly
Countless times Larry Christopherson had fished the clear waters of Montana Creek 110 miles north of Alaska’s largest city. It is a relatively small stream full of rainbow trout that rushes down […]
Grizzly bear gone lost
Fate may have intervened to save the life of a young grizzly bear on whose head Denali National Park officials imposed a death sentence earlier this month. The subadult bear appeared doomed […]
