The epitome of the ‘Big, Wild Life’ The legendary Dick Griffith, a man who inspired a generation of Alaska adventurers, has gone off on that last grand adventure that awaits us all. He ...

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 ...

Now semi-retired Alaska economist Gunnar Knapp, the nation’s foremost authority on the economics of the Alaska fishing business, offered a blunt warning to the state’s salmon industry seven years ago.

For hundreds of thousands of years, change has been an undeniable and unavoidable constant for the human species. Sometimes it has crept into our lives as easily as the wheel of ancient times or the ...

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 ...

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 ...

After years of mainly sitting on Cook Inlet beaches, commercial setnet salmon fishermen were back on the water this week as returning sockeye offered a lesson in how little we know about the survival ...