The roots of disaster Part 1 of a 4-part series Thirty-five years ago, Alaska politicians and the politically powerful commercial fishing interests that had long punched above their economic ...

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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 ...

And so, with financier and child molester Jeffrey Epstein dead in an apparent suicide, an investigation into his sordid sex life is reported to be shifting toward Alice Rogoff’s old, Iditarod trail ...

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 turning down ...

That’s not great, but it could have been worse. The state figures put the dockside value of the average sockeye at about $4.05 this year, an improvement from the $3.50 per fish paid for bigger fish ...

A former BP oilfield engineer who thought he could seize control of much of Anchorage’s upper Potter Valley by buying an old homestead and then blocking off a historic road has been rebuffed by an ...

Forty-eight-year-old Matt Glover from North Pole, Alaska, was, according to his many Fairbanks-area friends, among the safest and most responsible cyclists in the 49th state. A wildland firefighter by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Battering the AK brand Alaska now enters the heart of the commercial salmon season with the fishing industry in chaos. In a commentary in the trade publication Seafood Source, seafood industry ...