Thirty-year-old, U.S. Army paratrooper Seth Michael Plant survived a tour of duty in the war zone that was Afghanistan only to die in the far north on Tuesday when he stepped on […]
A sad end
First fatal
With a soldier dead at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) on the edge of Alaska’s largest city, the state’s first fatal bear attack of 2022 was making national news on Tuesday. First reported […]
Killing science
When the history of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is written years from now, one of the most notable consequences might prove to be the damage done to science by scientists or those who […]
Alaska kills
The 2022 climbing season in the Alaska Range is again off to a grim start with the first man up Mount Denali dead and a woman earlier flown out of the range […]
Clean fishing
The handwriting might be on the wall for the commercial gillnet fisheries targeting Columbia River salmon in the wake of a new study documenting how almost unbelievably clean it is to fish […]
Pandemics 2.0
With the avian pandemic having now reached Alaska and the human disease Covid-19 gone endemic, maybe it’s time to take a deep breath and contemplate nature’s role in population dynamics. For almost […]
The ever war
The state of Alaska and the federal government appear headed toward yet another tussle over the long controversial and divisive issue of “subsistence,” but this time with a twist. Not only are […]
The propagandist
The woman who filled the roll of “fisheries reporter” for Alaska’s largest newspaper for years has retired with an admission of what was obvious to fishery-educated readers a long-time ago: She was […]
Alaska’s UFO
Look, in the sky, it’s a bird; it’s a plane; it’s glowing blob of gas. Blame the Chinese. Researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in collaboration with colleagues from Harvard University […]
Pure entertainment
In these days of make culture-war not any sort of peace, Sarah Palin, the former governor for all pit bulls, might well be the best Alaskan to fill the now vacant seat […]
