From his home in rainy Ketchikan near the southern end of the Alaska Panhandle, former Alaska Commissioner of Public Safety Dick Burton watches the slow but steady tribalization of the 49th […]
Alaska divided
Yukon manhunt
Aboard a makeshift, homemade raft, the suspect in a string of summer arsons along the Yukon River slipped past the village of Anvik after a brief, Thursday encounter with locals who told […]
The feds arrive
Both economically and biologically, the commercial fisheries of Alaska’s Cook Inlet are imprecise and archaic. And now come federal regulators to try to apply Information Age precision to this chaos of […]
No whales now
Twenty-nine-years ago, Utqiaġvik was Barrow, Alaska, and winter ice was forming fast on this day. Words cannot really describe how different conditions now. On Friday, you could have surfed the Arctic Ocean off […]
AK’s got gas
Alaska’s sputtering and stalling natural gas pipeline project appears to roaring forward again no matter what the media might be reporting. Just weeks after Alaska Gov. Bill Walker told the Alaska Resource […]
News evolves
In the Age of the Internet, the power of the press – an invisible force that once put fear into politicians – is fading fast in Alaska where the state’s largest newspaper […]
Cat tales
In the wake of an unconfirmed sighting of a mountain lion on the Anchorage Hillside, it is worth revisiting the history of cougar reports in and around Alaska’s largest city. Wildlife biologists […]
Phantom cougar
A mountain lion is on the loose in Alaska’s largest city. Or so says the internet. The media involved is social, but it’s still called “media.”
Bears, bears, bears
The bears have invaded Seward, AK. One got shot in the foot. And now there is a bit of social media debate underway. The good news is that Seward Police Chief Tom […]
A Chinook victory
A complicated and sometimes contentious Copper River salmon season is coming to an end with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game seemingly in position to declare mission accomplished. State fishery managers […]
