The great hatchery promise With Alaska on track to post its worst salmon harvest since 1979, it’s time to revisit the promise made to the state’s once taxpaying voters when they ponied […]
No Salvation
Dark politics
Fairy tales and blindness The great dream of ranked-choice voting in Alaska was that voters wouldn’t “need to worry about ‘spoilers,’ or feel forced to vote for the lesser of two evils.” […]
Bear with
The Big (too) Wild Life With the Chugach Mountain foothills above Anchorage averaging a bear mauling a month in this, the summer of 2026, some seem to be getting a little edgy […]
The big lie
Outside help AK Dems don’t need What, in God’s name, are Democrats thinking in trying to tie Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, to trawler bycatch that has absolutely nothing to do with the […]
High crimes
And Permanent Fund misdemeanors Alaska Democrats are upset that Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, followed the lead of the Alaska Permanent Fund and invested in a highly successful salmon farming business. They should […]
Nature’s whims
Alaska hatchery salmon gone missing The grand vision of an Alaska commercial salmon fishing industry stabilized by the hand of man producing fish in hatcheries and sending them to graze the sea […]
Latest bear attack
See no evil, hear no… Update: A late-to-the party Alaska Department of Fish and Game has now added some new information to what happened in Bear Valley while managing to ignore the […]
Talking bycatch
It’s almost everywhere in AK Editor’s note: This post has been updated. The faces of the ”badass local gals” in the art attached to the story have been obscured because of complaints […]
Wild Life Invasion
The dangerous Big Wild Life Spring came late to Alaska’s largest city this year on the heels of a brutal winter, and now the wildlife have invaded. Actually, they were always here, […]
Who benefits?
Alaska salmon farming ripoff With the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association (CIAA) now nearly $20 million in debt to the state of Alaska with no signs of future solvency, the time has come […]
