Newest dipnetters can sell their fish Dipnetting for Cook Inlet salmon, which usually doesn’t get underway until the opening of the Kasilof River tomorrow, jumped off to an earlier start last week, […]
It begins
Late-night visitor
The American campground disrupters Summer has officially begun in Alaska with the first public report of a unsettlng encounter with a misbehaving bear. Scary as this one must have been for the […]
Better living
If only we could curb the addiction…. Another study is out concluding that more exercise and improved diets could go a long way toward slowing what has become an epidemic of dementia […]
Negative profits
AK fish farm bleeds state money The Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association may have become the Alaska leader in putting the “non” in non-profit. Having lost an average of about $1.5 million per […]
Revisiting the bus
The blank lines tell a story How is it that in all these years nobody ever noticed that Chris McCandless, the young man who died a tragic early death in the wilderness […]
Gone forever?
Alaska’s incredibly shrunken salmon Why is it that an Alaska Congressional delegation that almost never objects to federal dollars flowing north is in a tizzy about a National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]
Bike wars
Motorists enraged by city’s new bike lanes Of the wands that have sprouted along two streets in downtown Anchorage, one thing can be said for certain: Never has so much been made […]
1 safe, 1 dead
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 […]
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 […]
