Yukon king salmon rebound beginning? After a couple of years with cooler waters in the Bering Sea, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game is reporting a Yukon River return of Chinook salmon that has, ...

Anchorage weather could make big flip After one of the coldest winters in a long time, coming as it did on the heels of a very snowy winter, Alaska’s largest city now looks to be ...

Iditarod faces its future With the departure of the ‘thought leader’ who promised to boost the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race by leveraging media like Michael Jordan and others did to ...

A staggering pedestrian kill rate If you are one of the few who spend much time walking in Anchorage, be afraid; be very afraid. A “Dangerous by Design” study produced by Smart Growth ...

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 from their parents and Jackie Kondak, the ...

While most of the sporting world was Friday chattering about the FIFA World Cup, the July Fourth start of the Tour de France, or the latest NFL star facing serious criminal charges, the buzz in the ...

For decades, commercial setnet fishermen working the beaches on the east side of Cook Inlet fought efforts to alter their fishery to reduce the bycatch of king salmon bound for the Kenai River. As a ...

Alaska has a damn Dan problem. Or, maybe more accurately, a Dan Sullivans problem. The state’s Director of Elections on Monday ruled that one of these Sullivans, a neophyte politician from the small ...

On a mountain where skis have, over the years, increasingly replaced snowshoes as the tool of choice for glacier travel, a National Park Service ranger reportedly on skis has died in a crevasse fall.

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, but the bears were dozing through hibernation, ...

Amid all the reported concern about global warming and deadly heat waves, one might have thought Alaska or at least, Minnesota – the state trying to rebrand itself as the “True North” – would score ...

Confidence in scientists, which slipped in this country during the Covid-19 pandemic, is reported to be climbing once again, but you have to wonder why. Not because science is a bad thing. Science is ...