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 ...

As diehard fans of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race celebrate the victory of an out-of-work reality TV star with a documented history of disrespect for Alaska wildlife and the last mushers on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has finally released its summary of the 2024 commercial salmon fishing season in the 49th state, and the only good news is that the total, all-species catch ...

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,” ...

Update: This story has been edited to include a report Stu Nelson’s body was found Friday and that the Bonner County Sheriff’s Department has confirmed the death of an “Iditarod veterinarian” is being ...

The driver who killed 48-year-old Fairbanks cyclist Matt Glover on the Richardson Highway in October 2022 is now telling his version of what happened. Then 66-year-old Fred Aker first contacted this ...

If only we could curb the addiction…. Another study is out concluding that more exercise and improved diets could go a long way toward slowing what has become an epidemic of dementia and Alzheimer’s ...

The Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association may have become the Alaska leader in putting the “non” in non-profit. Having lost an average of about $1.5 million per year for the past 10 years, the ...

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 yet still rivals Sarah Palin ...