Both economically and biologically, the commercial fisheries of Alaska’s Cook Inlet are imprecise and archaic. And now come federal regulators to try to apply Information Age precision to this chaos of […]
The feds arrive
No whales now
Twenty-nine-years ago, Utqiaġvik was Barrow, Alaska, and winter ice was forming fast on this day. Words cannot really describe how different conditions now. On Friday, you could have surfed the Arctic Ocean off […]
Global stew
An ocean circulation phenomenon known as La Nina is brewing in the tropics west of Central America, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) suspects it might, maybe, kinda, could bring Alaska […]
Globe cool, AK warm
Once again, Alaska is bucking the trend or leading the way. You decide. The globe might have ended its run of record high temperatures in September, but the 49th state didn’t. While […]
Whale of an AK ride
A group of predominantly German tourists got a better than hoped for Alaska wildlife sightseeing cruise on Wednesday when they found themselves up close and personal with a humpback whale. “It was […]
Living the Anomaly
Everyone slipping, sliding and falling around Anchorage thanks to the rain-plagued winter of 2015-16 might have noticed something isn’t quite normal. But don’t worry. This is simply what the National Weather […]
