A preliminary report released by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board today would appear to indicate that a group of skiers and snowboarders who died in a late March helicopter crash in […]
Last run
Ever fewer
News analysis As Alaskans turn their attention to yet another forecast of a low return of sockeye salmon to the waters lapping at the shore of the state’s largest city, Canadian scientists […]
Protect yourself
If you are not by this time on a fitness kick, you’re being foolish. Why? One hyphenated word: COVID-19. Study after study after study is pointing to cardiometabolic fitness as your best, […]
A family’s loss
Sixty years ago, a one-time trapper turned writer named Frank Conibear was presented the Certificate of Merit from the American Humane Society for inventing a body-crushing trap designed to quickly kill wild […]
Tragic loss
Update: This story was updated on April 13 to include new information. Days before a 40-year-old heli-skier was reported dead in an avalanche near the Matanuska Glacier north of Anchorage, a 22-year-old […]
Secret season
SPENCER GLACIER – The April sun was bright in the Placer River valley east of Alaska’s largest city on Tuesday making the air feel warmer and the wilderness friendlier than the 27-degree […]
(C)old Alaska
Global warming was out as April rolled into the far north. The bad cold days were back. And humankind was struggling to adapt. Along the Bering Sea in Northwest Alaska, the Kobuk […]
Bad vibes
On the day Glenn Greenwald, once a darling of the U.S. media but increasingly an outcast, ripped into a predominately blue media’s coverage of the red half of America, Alaska’s largest newspaper […]
Size matters
Contrary to earlier reports on COVID-19 and obesity, a new, peer-viewed metanalysis published in the journal Nature has concluded the obese are no more likely to die from the pandemic disease than […]
Shared trails
Surprise, surprise – scientists at Washington State University (WSU) have decided grizzly bears like trails for the same reason humans do. Trails make cross-country travel a whole lot easier. Alaskans who have […]
