A staggering pedestrian kill rate If you are one of the few who spend much time walking in Anchorage, be afraid; be very afraid. A “Dangerous by Design” study produced by Smart […]
Streets of death
Talking bycatch
It’s almost everywhere in AK Bycatch was on the menu at the Fresh Catch Cafe in Homer on Wednesday. Whether it was a king salmon trying to return to the Kenai or […]
Gone, gone, gone
Amazon undelivers… In the America beyond Alaska, Amazon – the country’s now largest business – appears to be working hard to live up to its 2019 pledge to reach net zero carbon […]
Another bailout
Cash rewards for bad behavior For decades, commercial setnet fishermen working the beaches on the east side of Cook Inlet fought efforts to alter their fishery to reduce the bycatch of king […]
Name games
Dan versus Dan Alaska has a damn Dan problem. Or, maybe more accurately, a Dan Sullivans problem. The state’s Director of Elections on Monday ruled that one of these Sullivans, a neophyte […]
A ranger’s death
And a lot of questions A news analysis On a mountain where skis have, over the years, increasingly replaced snowshoes as the tool of choice for glacier travel, a National Park Service […]
Wild Life Invasion
The dangerous Big Wild Life Spring came late to Alaska’s largest city this year on the heels of a brutal winter, and now the wildlife have invaded. Actually, they were always here, […]
Bad year
Iditarod dream dies and then…. As if this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race wasn’t enough of a disaster for “expedition” musher Steve Curtis, the Canadian now has bigger trouble in the […]
Killer roads
Five times deadlier than average With Alaska’s largest city setting records for pedestrian deaths on its streets, the Anchorage Police Department is bragging about its success in corralling rogue drivers during its […]
Likin’ it hot
Dissing the land of ice and snow Amid all the reported concern about global warming and deadly heat waves, one might have thought Alaska or at least, Minnesota – the state trying […]
