Awash in can-do enthusiasm fueled by construction of the 800-mile-long, crude-oil-hauling Trans-Alaska Pipeline System almost 40 years ago, oil producers on the 49th state’s North Slope made a good-faith, never-fulfilled offer to […]
Mountain biker’s bear death
A mountain biker killed by a bear in Montana appears to mark only the second time a cyclist has died after such a confrontation, but there could be lessons in the […]
Climate change gone wild
Seventy degree temperatures in Alaska in March. Sockeye salmon swarming to Alaska rivers thinking May is June. Glaciers fleeing the coast to search for mountain cold. Get out the beach umbrellas. The […]
Tax the Alaska PIGS
COMMENTARY CHITINA – Alaska has a revenue problem of which everyone must by now be aware. But it also appears to have an untapped resource that has gone unconsidered: PIGS. No, we’re […]
Alaska’s deadly waters
In the remote northeast corner of the 19-million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, on the far side of the northernmost mountain range on the North American content long removed from any hint of […]
Gasline financing questioned
UPDATE: This story was updated at 10:47 p.m., June 24, 2016 to include a biography of the staff at MustReadAlaska.com The possibility Alaska Gov. Bill Walker is preparing to declare Prudhoe Bay […]
Bring our fish home
More than 36,000 pounds of prized Alaska salmon and halibut now sitting in Seattle could be headed north again if the Fairbanks Community Food Bank can raise the money to cover the […]
Jay Hammond’s curse
From somewhere in the hereafter, the late Alaska Gov. Jay Hammond must be watching with interest the spectacle of the moment in the state’s capital. Never could the old Bush Rat have […]
Alaska’s everyday guns
c I walked up to a policeman yesterday carrying one of the world’s most powerful handguns in a holster in my right hand. He noticed. How could he not? But he didn’t […]
Successful Denali rescue
O Only three days after failure in a heroic effort to save the life of Denali climber Masayuki Ikeda at 18,400 feet on Denali, National Park Service helicopter pilot Andy Hermansky is […]
