Commercial fishermen, who the state fought to keep working this summer even as COVID-19 shut down many other businesses, are now pressuring the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to reduce the […]
Fair shares
Furry neighbors
Just as Anchorage recreationists were starting to think it safe to go back into the woods, the grizzly bears showed up to dine along the city’s eastern edge. What other, census-designated metropolitan […]
Crazy in love
The daughter of the star of a short-lived Alaska reality TV show has returned to her Minnesota home fearing she will never again see her father alive. Her father – 78-year-old Duane […]
Endemic
When, oh, when are political leaders going to accept that the latest pandemic is over, and what we are all dealing with today is a new and sometimes deadly endemic disease different […]
Ose rescue
Seventy-eight-year-old Duane Ose – the man who sold his Alaska hideaway on a British reality TV show only to try to steal it back – was in the Fairbanks hospital Tuesday […]
Pandemic pitfalls
If you have any doubts that the pandemic is driving people nuts, take a look at the mess journalist Jeffrey Toobin has whipped up. Sorry, bad phrasing there. You really don’t want […]
Black gold decline
Sixty-three years ago, oil made Alaska. Now, as global markets retract, the time appears to be approaching to wonder if oil will unmake the 49th state. Ignore the millions of dollars being […]
Cold spray works
As the snow creeps down the mountains of coastal Alaska and the temperatures drop, researchers from the Lower 48 have good news for bear wary, end-of-season hikers: Bear spray has now been […]
No fishing zone
After years of negotiations between federal officials and Cook Inlet commercial fishermen over how to prosecute a federal fishery in the center of the 200-mile-long waterway that laps at Anchorage’s front […]
Hormonal dangers
UPDATE: Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz has resigned. He issued a statement citing “unacceptable personal conduct” as the reason. The nature of that conduct remains undefined. While Duane Ose, the 78-year-old […]
