UPDATE: Mattanaw Mattanaw today turned to Facebook to offer his version of the alleged gunplay on Stewarts Road last week that led to him being charged with a felony for driving […]
One-man shoot out
Canada’s anger
Indignant that so many streams and rivers in Alaska are annually plugged with salmon while those to the south of the 49th state struggle, Canadian activists led by commercial fishermen and Native […]
Grading science
A team of epidemiologists from across the country, led by researchers from Emory University, have launched an interesting defense of their profession in the June issue of the journal Science Advances with […]
Covid-filled spaces
More than two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control has finally decided it might be time to do something about building ventilation. Now retired Anchorage plumber Jeff Cooper […]
The downtrodden
SMITHERS, B.C., Canada – Life ain’t fair. Driving through Canada listening to the CBC, that nation’s public radio network, you get an ear full of just how unfair. The stories of those […]
Ultimate fish war
What the federal government has against guys like Oscar Evon is hard to figure out, but it must be something. Who you ask is Oscar Evon? Evon is the director of regional […]
Dog-eaten paperwork?
Explanations as to why Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race musher Jessie Holmes felt it necessary to shoot four moose in self-defense in the space of a week in February remain unavailable, but […]
Copper River bust
No sooner had the Alaska commercial salmon season begun amid reports of sky-high prices for Copper River kings and sockeyes than fishing was put on hold for lack of fish. Gillnetters were […]
The disinformation war
“The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should […]
Second climbing death
On the day the National Park Service retrieved the body of one dead climber from near the 20,300-foot summit of Mount Denali, another was entombed in the Kahiltna Glacier. The as-yet-unidentified Kahiltna […]
