RUSSIAN RIVER – The crowds that have made this gin-clear stream Alaska’s most famous “combat fishery” were missing Wednesday. A mature black bear that emerged behind the lone angler occupying the well-known […]
Empty state
Economic doomsday?
A newly released report on the “Blue Economy” from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development contains nary a mention of Alaska, but it is stuffed full of bad news […]
Bell curves
The bell curve that no Alaskans wanted to see flatten started late, peaked early and is now falling fast as state fishery managers begin to worry about whether they will be able […]
Bears everywhere
The SARS-CoV-2 virus might have upended the world, but in Alaska’s largest city, some things haven’t changed. Summer is back and along with it the bears. They are seemingly everywhere, though […]
A testing headache
Sometimes doing the right thing is not easy as Bub Nelson learned when he finally made it back to Alaska in this the year of COVID-19. After Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced near […]
Missing fish
Commercial fishermen had their nets in the waters off the mouth of the Copper River on Monday even though the return of sockeye salmon to one of the 49th state’s most fabled […]
COVID gamble
As Alaska salmon processors head into the fishing season hopeful of dodging the perils of the pandemic, a new report on the meat and poultry industries paints a portrait of a problem-filled […]
Reds in peril
A group of Canadian and West Coast U.S. scientists think they have an answer as to why returns of sockeye salmon to the Kenai, Copper and other Western North American rivers have […]
Irods COVID survivor
For Alaska musher Mille Porsild, the thrill of finishing her first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race as Rookie of the Year in mid-March was followed almost immediately by the nightmare of COVID-19. […]
Dirty hands
Worldwide, more than 1.5 million people per year were dying from lung infections – 60 percent of them caused by viruses – before the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 emerged earlier this year to spawn […]
