Lack of consequences = dangerous roads The question of the moment is simple: “Who killed Carlton Higgins?” The Anchorage Police Department (APD) knows, but it won’t say. Why? Because APD is […]
Everyday danger
3rd wave coming?
On the other side of the world, a masked-up Italy is locking down again in the face of a March 2021 wave of COVID-19 infections looking like the deadly wave of 2020 […]
AK #1 worst
Alaska has won another dubious distinction – this time claiming the dishonor as home to the worst drivers in the country. But anyone who has commuted on the Glenn Highway between Palmer […]
Where now?
News analysis Six months into the worst pandemic to sweep the globe since the Spanish Flu more than a century ago, it should now be clear to everyone that the SARS-CoV-2 virus […]
Masks and guns
If you live in Alaska, there are situations in which a firearm just might save you from being mauled or killed by a grizzly bear. With the SARS-CoV-2 virus on the loose, […]
Reality bites
Alaska squeaked back in front of California in September to regain its position as the nation’s sixth-largest oil producer, but as U.S. oil production has grown in this decade it is stunning […]
Desert fresh salmon
Almost every day it seems there comes a new swell in the wave of change breaking over an Alaska commercial salmon industry that has been a mainstay of the northern economy since […]
Oil in the Chukchi
When Royal Dutch Shell, ConocoPhillips and other oil companies abandoned plans to drill for oil in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea three years ago, environmentalists took the news as a victory for the […]
Doomsday
Despite The Nation magazine this month suggesting Alaska salmon in peril, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game says consumers need not worry about eating wild-caught fish from the 49th state. Salmon […]
Fallen ranger
A simple slip, a fall and a 25-year-old man whose future was waiting for him is dead in Alaska. Alaska State Troopers say Danny Dresher, once a seasonal ranger at Lake Clark […]
