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 ...

It’s almost everywhere in AK Bycatch was on the menu at the Fresh Catch Cafe in Homer on Wednesday. Whether it was a king salmon trying to return to the Kenai or Susitna rivers, where kings ...

Iditarod director leaving 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 ...

Cash rewards for bad behavior 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 ...

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, ...

Iditarod dream dies and then…. As if this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race wasn’t enough of a disaster for “expedition” musher Steve Curtis, the Canadian now has bigger trouble in the warm environs ...

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 ...

A mainstream media long stuck on the idea that dams and global warming were the only problems facing the fabled Chinook salmon of the Pacific Northwest seems to finally have realized there might be ...