It seemed somebody, maybe a bunch of somebodies, didn’t like the title or the rendition of an intense-eyed husky on the cover, or maybe both.

Oh-oh moment for Alaska salmon season With the Alaska commercial salmon season now more than 80 percent done with a harvest lagging behind the pre-season forecast, as was the case last year, the ti… ...

Will this science live on? Remember when we were all standing six feet apart in lines thinking that doing so was going to help protect us from Covid-19? Well, a team of physicists from the Universi… ...

But cheer up, Alaska not worst The good old days of a 49th state rich in oil revenues that boosted all kinds of community projects might be over, and the culture war that has split Americans right … ...

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The benefits and the cost Twenty-five-years ago economist Steve Colt wrote an “economic history” of “Salmon Fish Traps in Alaska” that ended with this line: “It may be time for Alaskans to reconsider ...

Alaska-connected financier accused of swindle A one-time best bud of Alaskan Gabrielle “Ellie” Rubenstein, a member of the Permanent Fund Corporation’s board of directors up until… ...

The blank lines tell a story How is it that in all these years nobody ever noticed that Chris McCandless, the young man who died a tragic early death in the wilderness near Denali National Park and ...

Only in Alaska can reality prove stranger than reality TV, and when the two converge, the outcome is near unbelievable. Consider the case of 78-year-old Duane Ose who off and on for years lived ...

Why Peltola decided to get into the risky business of flying guided hunters, their equipment and sometimes the meat of the animals they killed into and out of makeshift airstrips is unknown, but it is ...

Alaska’s Empty Interior Umpenhour was by then well-connected to many among the relatively few people trying to survive in tiny villages and small, private outposts along the Yukon. A U.S. Marine in ...

A Harvard University survey of 150 of the country’s top experts on “misinformation” provides a wonderful illustration of why American journalism should have avoided the quagmire of “fact-checking,” ...