In a sure sign that the always contentious Cook Inlet meeting of the Alaska Board of Fisheries is approaching, the state’s largest newspaper is propagandizing on the value of the state’s […]
Tangling the truth
Dopey dogs
Alaska’s biggest sporting events have yet to hit the trail and already there is a doping controversy. This time it involves the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race from Fairbanks to […]
Close call
Updated Jan. 29, 2020: The Jeep has been freed. A small army of fellow four-wheel-drive adventurers helped pull it from the ice on Tuesday. Colby Davis shot an excellent video is […]
In our genes
With the U.S. more bitterly divided than any time since the Vietnam War, is it better or worse to know that archeologists digging in northern Spain have concluded that the divisive […]
‘Seward’s Folly’ redux
Coming off the warmest year in Alaska history, the state’s largest city appears headed for the fifth or sixth coldest January in the local climate record. As of Wednesday, the average monthly […]
Government spin
stat A Utah man who became the subject of a dramatic story about his rescue from what was portrayed as near death in the wilds of Alaska earlier this month is now […]
Phantom project
Behind the natural gas “window” to the fiscal promised land that former Alaska Gov. Bill Walker and his half-million-dollar, Texan hired-hand spent four years trying to sell Alaskans, it now appears there […]
Just say no
Leave it to Alaska’s neighbors to the south to figure out the simple way to end the need for costly rescues in the remote Wrangell-St. Elias Mountains: Just ban the mountaineers most […]
Tick, tick, tick
The season for getting up close and personal with the glaciers nearest Alaska’s largest city has arrived, and some are wondering if this is the year one of them claims its first […]
The 1.5 percent
Data reveals that in fish crazy AK, most Alaskans don’t fish
