Fashionable organic food may be contaminating consumers with microplastics due to microplastic-filled compost polluting organic farms, according to a study published Wednesday in Science Advances. German scientists studying organic fertilizer found it contained […]
Just as residents of the land of the midnight sun began gearing up for The Great Alaska Sportsman Show – an annual rite in preparation for the short season of long days […]
If a radio-collared wolf dies in Denali National Park and Preserve and no press release is written, does its death matter? Or are the deaths only of note when they come at […]
News analysis The national seafood media was Monday atwitter with speculation China might impose tariffs on American seafood, and Alaska Commissioner of Commerce Mike Navarre was trying to spin the state’s proposed […]
SEATTLE – Inside the REI mothership here on Easter Sunday, all one could do was wonder whatever happened to the big boycott. A month ago, REI – one of the mega players […]
The Hoodoo Mountains of Eastern Alaska have been good to Anchorage middle-school teacher and Arctic Man Eric Heil. Once he owned a piece of them. Not in the literal sense, but […]
Retired Alaska Board of Fisheries member Al Cain is unretired, and non-commercial fishing groups from around the state are declaring victory. Gov. Bill Walker had been planning to replace Cain, a 62-year-old […]
Thirty-six years ago this summer, Anchorage’s Dick Griffith blew up an inflatable boat on the east bank of the Kenai Peninsula’s Skilak River and set in motion a chain of […]
The high cost of doing government business in Alaska was outlined Wednesday in a report from the Alaska Policy Forum that showed nearly three-quarters of Anchorage Municipal employees are compensated to the […]
Commentary The United States is a country where appearance matters – matters a lot; a country where fears sometimes run wild; and a country today caught up in a pre-occupation with self. […]
