The Alaska Department of Law appears to have no interest in whether retired Kotzebue teacher Paul Atkins was illegally collecting permanent fund dividends (PFDs) for years, but says that if anyone else […]
Gone & forgotten?
Bear dance?
A bizarre video has emerged of what has been described as a Sunday “bear attack” along the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail in Anchorage. The shaky film taken by another walker on the […]
Bear attack
Anchorage witnessed its first bear attack on Sunday, but details are sketchy. Update: The Anchorage Police Department has yet to provide any details on what it described as a “bear attack” […]
Tough loss
Less than two months after Cook Inlet commercial drift gillnet fishermen hailed a major victory for their fishery in federal waters, the commercial fishermen who set gillnets along the Inlet’s eastern […]
Another PFD thief?
Alaska state records now indicate that Kotzebue school teacher Paul Dewitt Atkins – who was earlier this month convicted of being a non-resident hunter posing as a resident for years – filed […]
Dousing the fire
UPDATE: Flooding from this drenched has closed a number of road in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough: https://ready.matsugov.us/pages/flooding The rain was falling heavily again in Alaska’s largest city on Monday morning, and a […]
The muskox killer
For 22 years, Paul Atkins, an avid hunter and outdoorsman, taught school on the edge of the Bering Sea in the remote community of Kotzebue where the winters are long and cold […]
Unhealthy, unfit, dead
With almost everyone except the Chinese now in agreement the SARS-CoV-2 virus is here to stay (who woulda thunk it), and the medical community debating what to do about new vaccines and […]
For the fish
An Alaska judge on Monday decided that salmon matter more than money and turned down a request that he order state Commissioner of Fish and Game Doug Vincent-Lang to reopen commercial setnet […]
Unhappy fishermen
KENAI – Friday found the beaches at the mouth of Alaska’s most fought-over river woefully short of dipnetters willing to help stop the possible “over-escapement” of sockeye salmon so feared by the […]
