More than a year after the global pandemic throttled Alsaka’s largest industry, there are indications that far north tourism is on the comeback trail. Transits buses to the Eielson Visitor Center […]
Tourism climbing
Rescue me
In the wake of what is being billed as the largest mountain rescue in Alaska history, it is hard to avoid pondering what the late and legendary Bradford Washburn might think. Washburn […]
How fear dies
A year ago in Alaska, the state was averaging two to 15 cases of COVID-19 per week, according to the Worldometer tracker, and many Alaskans were starting to panic over the […]
No fish
SUNDAY UPDATE: The Copper River sockeye return looks to have gone from bad to worse. Even with the commercial fishery closed since last Monday and high tides pushing fish […]
Unvaxxed guv
More than a month after offering tourists free COVID-19 vaccine if they took an Alaska vax-ation, the governor of the nation’s largest state himself remains unvaccinated. Asked why on Thursday, Corey Allen […]
The 470-yard shot
Idaho hunter Trevor Schneider had quite the story to tell his regional newspaper – the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash. – about his “near-death” experience with an Alaska grizzly bear, or was it […]
Furry friends
Armed with hundreds of trail cameras, scientists from across North America have come up with the data to form a list of the wildlife most and least comfortable around people. Most of […]
Unmasking
And so the year-long mask-charade ends with a big question: Can you trust your fellow citizens? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday said the vaccinated can now go […]
Danger fish
If reports coming from the Twentymile River approximately 45 miles east of Alaska’s largest city are to be believed, some six- to eight-inch long fish nearly killed a couple of people […]
The last cowboys
News analysis Alaska is expected to see another near-record salmon season this year with the Alaska Department Fish and Game forecasting a harvest of more than 190 million of the fish or […]
