The problem with tasty chickens With a chicken-fancying grizzly bear sow and her cubs still roaming upscale Hillside neighborhoods above Alaska’s largest city, there is an increasing social-media call for the Alaska […]
Coop bears
Losers, again
Court rejects federal fisheries takeover Inspired by the belief of the outlaw Roland Maw that federal law dictates all salmon in Cook Inlet be managed to produce the maximum return of sockeyes […]
Rundown
Two weeks ago, 61-year-old Fairbanks cyclist Janice Onorato was rammed by a car while riding along the Steese Highway north of the Central Alaska city. Why Alaska State Troopers, who responded […]
The pushers
Leave it to the American College of Cardiology to out American physicians for what so many of them have become: drug pushers. The College this week declared that “NuSH therapies” – short […]
Dependent Alaska
49th state near last in “independence” No matter how much some Alaskans might like to think of their state as a stronghold for the conservative virtues of individual effort, hard work and […]
Trainwreck fishery
Tough times continue for Alaska fishing industry As the commercial salmon fishing in Alaska heads into the heart of its summer season, the 49th state would appear to be reliving the […]
$5.5 billion musher
New ‘spirit of the Iditarod’ Got a few hundred thousand dollars lying around that you’d like to spend? If so, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has a deal for you. Welcome […]
Truest danger
What you don’t know can kill you Twenty-nine-year-old Nick Vizzini had a passion for skiing. “I ski a lot,” he wrote on the Facebook page of the Four Wheel Camper Project […]
Killer road
A news analysis The Anchorage Police Department is refusing to identify the hit-and-run driver who a week ago killed 33-year-old Aaron Cleveland on Brayton Road, a state-designated “bike route” that has […]
Big problems
When bears become ‘friends’ Take it from Ann Bryant, executive director of the Tahoe, Calif., Bear League, bears don’t kill people because “we’ve never had a bear kill anybody.” This is what she […]
