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Jan 12, 2025 · Study blames Alaska pink salmon for Idaho Chinook losses Forty three years after a top official of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game publicly and clearly revealed a plan to take […]

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Jan 5, 2025 · Studies offer cheap, easy prescription Want to live better and significantly increase your chances of living longer? No problem. Get up off your ass and move at every opportunity. Researchers from Australia […]

Nov 26, 2024 · Already facing a tide of outmigration, Alaska today finds its largest city pegged among the top five of the "30 Worst Places to Live in the United States.'' So much for the old idea of selling Anchorage as a comfortable, civilized, climate-change refuge on the edge of a vast wilderness ripe for recreational exploration. And…

Apr 4, 2024 · Alaska’s white pavements PLACER RIVER – The snowpack in this glacier-headed drainage 50 miles southeast of Alaska’s largest city was still at least four feet thick on Wednesday and with the early morning temperatures in the 20s, a fat-tired bike could be ridden almost anywhere across the white pavements. Global warming might be transforming the nation’s 49th state, but it is a slow ...

Dec 16, 2024 · Who is responsible for pedestrian death record? With Anchorage having set a new record for killing pedestrians on its streets, and more than a few motorists happy to blame it on the homeless gettin…

Apr 19, 2024 · A death quickly dismissed 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 4…

Nov 26, 2023 · News as propaganda kills trust Sometimes it is hard to tell whether scientists or journalists are most responsible for the pervasive global warming skepticism in the world’s largest an…

Jun 19, 2023 · Call for Anchorage leash law rising again Summer has come to Alaska's largest city; local trails are busy with Anchoragites; and dogs are once again rivaling the now Portlandesque problem of the homeless as the argument of the day. Some people think their dogs no different than children and prefer to let them run wild.…