The month of September has only begun, but so far the U.S. Climate Prediction Center has hit the bullseye – warmer, as it has been all summer, and wetter, hopefully marking the […]
Warmer, wetter
Patagonia attacks
“Sled Dogs” meet “Artifishal,” the latest film seeking to document the evil humans do in the quest for profit, glory and/or the noble aim of making the world better. “Sleds Dogs” was […]
Happy exhaustion
Twentymile River – The wind and rain that have long defined late-summer and fall in this corner of Alaska stormed into the country on Sunday, but the drought of ’19 – the […]
The paddlers
Archeologists in Idaho appear to have put another nail in the coffin of the long-held but rapidly dying theory that the first humans to arrive in North America crossed the Bering Land […]
Getting spun
Imagine reading this oped: “Alaska oil helps enrich Alaskans and power the world “In late March of this year, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources issued its forecast for 2019 statewide oil […]
Perspective
Late-arriving pink salmon stormed into Prince William Sound this week to push the statewide harvest for 2019 well above the five-year average of more than 170 million fish. The big catch […]
The upside
JEAN LAKE – Another big fire of the type many have been expecting since spruce-bark beetles devasted Southcentral Alaska forests in the 1990s has swept across the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge […]
The thin man
KENAI – The ever-thinner chief executive of the state of Alaska is not sick, his chief spokesman said today, he’s simply exercising an interest in health and fitness. “Standing Tall for Alaska” […]
Casino rising?
In an effort to bring casino-style gambling to the outskirts of Alaska’s largest city, the Native Village of Eklutna is suing the Department of the Interior, and the state of Alaska can’t […]
Big day
Commercial salmon seiners in Alaska’s Prince William Sound were back at it Saturday with hopes that Thursday’s bonanza of nearly 3 million pink salmon marked the start of a predicted monster run […]
