The Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association (BBRSDA) is touting the Southwest Alaska fishery as worth more than $2.2 billion in 2019, but most of that wealth appears to leave the so-called […]
Owner state share?
Old cold
The high temperature in Alaska’s largest city hit 22 degrees on Sunday – 13 degrees below normal and 26 degrees below the record temperature set in 1998, according to National Weather Service […]
Stayin’ alive
On a day-to-day basis in Alaska, human survival sometimes still comes down to three basic factors that trace their roots back to the species’ prehistory: situational awareness, judgment and tools. About all […]
3rd wave coming?
On the other side of the world, a masked-up Italy is locking down again in the face of a March 2021 wave of COVID-19 infections looking like the deadly wave of 2020 […]
COVID guilt
Near 2,000 feet in the Front Range Chugach Mountains on Monday, halfway through a two-hour skijor in a White-Christmasesque snowfall, it hit me that the year of the pandemic has been one […]
A blue future
News analysis The “window” that former Alaska Gov. Bill Walker and his half-million-dollar Texas sidekick spent years suggesting had opened for an Alaska natural gas pipeline never did, and now it’s […]
Iditarod, take two
If Alaska’s largest newspaper is to be believed, you can now add the so-called “Last Great Race” to the filmed events of which you must ask “is it real or is it […]
Good-bye Gold Loop
The “Gold Loop Trail” especially planned for the pandemic-plagued Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race of 2021 is no more thanks to another body blow from Mother Nature. Iditarod Race Marshall Mark Nordman […]
Burn, burn, burn
Fat-tired cyclists on the Iditarod Trail in what was once the Farewell Burn/Craig Medred photo The grueling Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, “a brutal test of tenacity and stamina,” is off this […]
3 layers better
In the wake of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) proclaiming two masks better than one for halting the spread of the sometimes deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus, it only […]
