And no, we ain’t talkin’ that “bird flu” that’s the backyard chicken problem of that place Alaskans call Outside. No, no, no. We got another “B”-related chicken problem: Bears. Them bears love ...

Is the Iditarod trying to make up to Røkke for the late Sen. Ted Stevens running the Norwegian out of the Bering Sea pollock trawling business in which he was once the biggest player? Some skeptics, ...

As the commercial salmon fishing in Alaska heads into the heart of its summer season, the 49th state would appear to be reliving the end of the 20th century, which came to a finish with pretty much ...

With the unUnited States of America having become, collectively, the fattest, unfittest, unhealthiest and, in some ways, unfriendliest nations in the Western world thanks to the road-rage stresses of ...

Will fabled Kenai kings ever return? Before the waters of the North Pacific Ocean warmed and its population of pink salmon exploded, Alaska’s Kenai River was home to a run of giant king salmon that ...

A one-time best bud of Alaskan Gabrielle “Ellie” Rubenstein, a member of the Permanent Fund Corporation’s board of directors up until last summer, now has a $145 million problem. The United States ...

With a record number of pedestrians dead in Anchorage last year, the state Department of Transportation has proposed a new, high-speed roadway through the heart of the state’s largest city. Mainly, ...

These now unUnited States of America have a drug problem, and it’s a lot bigger than the illicit chemicals that have cost the country more than $1 trillion since the War on Drugs was declared in 1971.

Now 82 years old, Virgil Umpenhour has been at war with Alaska’s commercial salmon farmers, or ranchers as they prefer to call themselves, for most of his adult life. For decades, he battled without ...

OLYMPIA, Wash – The flood of Interstate 5 traffic that thunders past the capitol of “The Evergreen State” day and night nicely underlines the July warning from the U.S. Department of Transportation ...

Alaska salmon farmers who annually turn almost 2 billion hatchery fish loose to feed on the pastures of the North Pacific Ocean finally appear to have caught the attention of Canadians who’ve for ...

Hatchery tax to fund study of ocean takeover? In what might be one of the bluntest, to-the-point abstracts every to top a fisheries science paper, a pair of Canadian scientists and a Seattle colleague ...