The beginning of the end of the year 2019 – the warmest in Alaska history – drew to an end in the state’s largest city in the style of the new-normal weather […]
Icy north
New Alaska tribes?
Already home to about 40 percent of the federally recognized Indian tribes in the United States, Alaska might soon be able to claim more. The U.S. Department of the Interior wants to […]
Intensive management
State management of wildlife on federal refuges in Alaska has survived a court challenge from the Center for Biological Diversity, which has been trying to limit the hunting and trapping of bears […]
All clear!
The wolverine that terrorized Alaska’s largest city appears to have disappeared and nary a moose has been known to have died. A month ago, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game issued […]
Reality bites
Alaska squeaked back in front of California in September to regain its position as the nation’s sixth-largest oil producer, but as U.S. oil production has grown in this decade it is stunning […]
Halibut bash
Get ready for a big halibut battle in South Coastal Alaska. With the big, tasty flatfish continuing to decline in number in the North Pacific Ocean, the fish war that commercial fishing […]
A dark horizon
If you’re an Alaska commercial salmon fishermen, be forewarned; the farmers in Wisconsin are coming for you. Dangers lurking in the future might be easy to overlook coming after another boom […]
Home of the rich
Global warming might portend all sorts of future problems from Alaska, but so far it’s coming up nothing but roses for the Bristol Bay region of the state. The U.S. Bureau of […]
School for bears
This is an open letter to the bears of Anchorage. Every bruin should read. Dear Yogi and Boo-boo: Apparently, you didn’t get the memo on home surveillance cameras. They’re now everywhere in […]
Down, down, down
Update: The possibility of a McClatchy company bankruptcy suggested here last week is now being bandied about by the mainstream media. “Newspaper Publisher McClatchy Teeters Near Bankruptcy,” Bloomberg headlined today. The story […]
