Musher now banned on two continents Banned first by the now defunct Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race that once ran for 1,000 miles through the frozen heart of Alaska to Whitehorse, Yukon Ter… ...

The American College of Sports Medicine almost two decades ago recognized this and launched “Exercise is Medicine” as “a global health initiative,” but it has done little or nothing to sell the idea ...

What value in a human life? The Alaska justice system has finally made Martin J. Richards pay for killing 65-year-old Redzebije Imeri. The cost? $200. Alaska State Court records reflect that this was ...

Court rejects federal fisheries takeover Inspired by the belief of the outlaw Roland Maw that federal law dictates all salmon in Cook Inlet be managed to produce the maximum return of sockeyes to t… ...

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The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which for years put up with the antics of Cat in the Hat-musher Hugh Neff, has now banned him, but won’t say why. Neff says he got a letter from the race tu… ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Statistically, grizzlies remain far more dangerous. But the scientists cautioned that black bears are not to be taken lightly, especially in wild areas where the predatory attacks concentrated. “We ...

In a month when the deaths of vulnerable road users are normally in decline in Alaska’s largest city, a motor vehicle has struck and killed a record, 14th pedestrian. The body count is now more than ...

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 last summer, now has ...