What killing a bruin has to do with getting things done for your state in the U.S. Senate is hard to say, but candidate Dr. Al Gross is campaigning as “Bear Doctor” […]
Bear doctoring
Stranger than fiction
Only in Alaska can reality prove stranger than reality TV, and when the two converge, the outcome is near unbelievable. Consider the case of 78-year-old Duane Ose who off and on […]
Hatchery troubles
Decades into what was once the world’s most productive ocean ranching operation, Japanese researchers have concluded that nation’s hatcheries managed to breed some of the resilience out of their salmon and undermine […]
Second bear victim
This story is an edited version of the original. It was updated on Sept. 25, 2020 to reflect corrected information about what bear attack victim Austin Pfieiffer was doing at the […]
Marginal gains
We have to do better. Yes, yes, we do. Whatever it is, we have to do better. COVID-19, race relations, socioeconomic inequities, the war on drugs, climate change, media accuracy, our […]
Mask the pets
Warning: Man’s best friend might now be man’s (and woman’s) newest worry. The evidence is growing that it’s not just mink that can spread SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes potentially deadly […]
Getting played
New analysis The supposedly objective evidence an Anchorage Daily News-ProPublica story posits as proof that the late Alaska Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott traumatized the former director of law enforcement for the […]
Fat’s danger
The way Chinese scientists are portraying obesity in these times of COVID-19, one could almost come to view it as a new chronic disease. “Obesity,” they wrote in a peer-reviewed paper […]
True stories
Two years on from the story Alaska’s legacy media largely ignored, the state’s largest news organization is claiming it has the true story on what led to the downfall of Lt. Gov. […]
Protect yourself
Evermore the evidence builds that the way to protect yourself from the potentially deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus stalking the planet is to stay as far away as possible from other people, any […]
