If you thought May in Alaska’s largest city was almost too good to be true, you were right. The official report from the National Weather Service is now in, and it ranks […]
Global warming, oh no!
Beautiful evening disaster
The woman killed by a semi-truck along the Seward Highway Tuesday evening was a former Minnesotan and lover of Alaska who took great joy in posting photos of her adopted state on […]
Asking for trouble
Commentary Does any of this sound familiar? “A moose on the rampage attacked two women walking with their dogs, injuring both severely. (The people, not the dogs. Grammar is in trouble […]
Moose on rampage
Don’t panic Anchorage. The moose in the city’s most popular urban park have not declared war on their human neighbors. The Big Wild Life has not spun out of control. What at […]
Catch, release, kill fish
Part 1 of 2 If you believe the science, somewhere around 4.8 million sockeye salmon were likely caught and released in Bristol Bay last year and half them died before spawning. That’s […]
One for the troops
MONTAGUE ISLAND – Until Thursday morning, the biggest fish U.S. Army PFC Evan Langer had ever hooked was an 18 1/2-inch bass. Then he found himself staring over the stern of […]
A tragic end
News that a body found this week in Costa Rica appears to be that of Cody Roman Dial – R-2 to a lot of friends and acquaintances of the Dial family here […]
The money fish
New economic data might make Alaskans want to think twice about cursing those fish-filled coolers soon to start passing through Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage. Tourists appear willing to pump a […]
Life with bruin
The bears have taken back the valley. The sign is everywhere, and it is more than the scat proliferating on neighborhood trails, the bear sightings shared by neighbors, and the bear cache […]
Alaska’s shrinking salmon
The season of the salmon in the waters surrounding Alaska’s urban core has opened with a warning that all might not be well in the North Pacific Ocean. Once again, as was […]
