Commentary The sorry state of vision plaguing Alaska’s aging, political elite can today be condensed to one word: North. North is the region to which the Midwest is trying to rebrand […]
Old north
Haeg’s hell
To understand why a small mob of law enforcement officers converged on the Alaska state courthouse in downtown Anchorage Monday to head off what looked to be a simple hearing heading rapidly […]
Halfback
Update: The word is now official. The Alaska Dispatch News is history. The Anchorage Daily News is back. The first of the new Anchorage Daily News newspapers are begin landing on city […]
Norway not
Commentary Norway’s version of the Alaska Permanent Fund hit the $1 trillion mark this week. That’s $1,000 billion, or about 16 times the $61.2 billion the state of Alaska is […]
Outdoors is big biz
SOLDOTNA – REI, Cabela’s and Bass Pro Shops were busy in Anchorage on Wednesday, and the dipnets were still pouring out the doors of Costco when the Outdoor Industry Association released a […]
Polar bear bull
Little did wildlife biologist James Wilder understand the hype surrounding bear attacks and climate change when he agreed to serve as lead author on a scientific paper examining polar bear attacks on […]
Hatchery plan stalls
A Homer, Alaska area salmon hatchery caught operating without a federal Clean Water Act permit won’t be moving its operations to Kachemak Bay anytime soon. The private, non-profit Cook Inlet Aquaculture […]
Alaska invasion
The tiny town of Skagway at the northern end of the Alaska Panhandle remains ground zero for 49th state tourism, according to the latest data out from the National Park Service. Close […]
Fish fight end?
The North Pacific Fisheries Council has taken an unprecedented step to try to increase the value of halibut to the Alaska economy by allowing a yet-to-be-created, charter-boat fishing entity to buy […]
Alaska Fish Board bail out
As if the Alaska Legislature didn’t have enough on its plate with the state budget spinning into a $3.5 billion abyss, there’s now bad news out of the Alaska Board of Fisheries.
