Is Alaska next? As if the Alaska commercial salmon fishing business didn’t already have enough problems, now some Michelin chefs have the knives out. WildFish, a charity based in the United ...

Never bet against tech Part 3 of a 4-part series Now semi-retired Alaska economist Gunnar Knapp, the nation’s foremost authority on the economics of the Alaska fishing business, offered a ...

Thirty-five years ago, Alaska politicians and the politically powerful commercial fishing interests that had long punched above their economic weight in the 49th state were patting themselves on the ...

On the bike on roads in an urban American far from Alaska, I finally discovered why some motorists so hate cyclists. Credit traffic “engineers” who’ve spent decades promoting the idea that drivers ...

As Alaska starts down the tunnel toward the long season of the SAD dark, there comes this good news: Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is worse in 13 other states, or so claims the “Legacy Healing ...

Under fire for the incidental harvest of salmon, which some claim has devastated Chinook returns to the Kuskokwim and Yukon rivers despite any scientific evidence to support such a claim, the ...

Many in these unUnited States today believe the big problem with American journalism is political bias, and that is a problem. But the even bigger problem is laziness, ignorance and sometimes the ...

One of the founders of the Alaska investment firm Pt Capital – Californian Joseph Neal Sanberg, “Joe” to his friends – has agreed to plead guilty to running a $248 million scam, according to the ...

Can an ever smaller Iditarod survive? Fifteen years ago, I wrote a book titled “Graveyard of Dreams: Dashed Hopes and Shattered Aspirations Along Alaska’s Iditarod Trail” that the Iditarod refused to ...

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 time has come to ask an impertinent ...

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 ...

With the deadliest pandemic of these times now fading into the rearview mirror, the time has come to consider the biggest element of the story missed by the U.S. media and this is it: The SARS-CoV-2 ...