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Alaska salmon management under fire A law-school student now clerking for an Alaska judge has penned the outline for a Constitutional challenge to the way Alaska has for decades managed its salmon ...
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Trump storms Wasilla Could politics get any stranger than they are now in these un-United States of Trump? Okay, narcissistic President Donald J. could still take a shot at trying to ...
The great dream of ranked-choice voting in Alaska was that voters wouldn’t “need to worry about ‘spoilers,’ or feel forced to vote for the lesser of two evils.” Those are not my words. Those are the ...
The 2026 commercial salmon season in Alaska is not yet over, but it can already be called a full-on disaster in Prince William Sound, the heartland of salmon farming in the nation’s northernmost state ...
With the Chugach Mountain foothills above Anchorage averaging a bear mauling a month in this, the summer of 2026, some seem to be getting a little edgy about enjoying the wilderness at the back door ...
This is almost twice the percentage who fear crime and violence, and more than double the percentage of the global average of those in fear of traffic. How fearful residents of and visitors to ...
With the normal peak of Prince William Sound salmon returns now in the rearview mirror, the ocean-farming heartland of the 49th state is marching toward a commercial fishery collapse of epic ...
An urban planner turned internet content provider did a deep dive into why pedestrian deaths in the U.S. rose 72 percent faster than both population growth and the associated increase in vehicle miles ...
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, ...
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 headed back to the future. Meteorologists have been talking ...