A problematic wonder drug Overweight and obese Americans, who now comprise the majority of this country’s adults, just got some bad news from The BMJ, the journal of the British Medical ...

The all-conquering pink salmon While Alaska fisheries biologists have been fretting about whether pink salmon straying from the state’s ocean-farming ranches could damage the genetics of ...

How tools influence our brains The debate roiling the mainstream media over the weekend focused on last week’s deadly shooting in the state of Minnesota involving an agent of the Immigration ...

Obese Americans now an overwhelming majority If you’re a regular air traveler in Alaska or even just an occasional one, as most are, you might have noticed that the people occupying the ...

An Alaska fisheries management failure Seemingly without thought, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has confessed to mismanaging wild chum salmon in Southeast Alaska to the benefit of private ...

While delusional Alaska politicians cling to a now nearly 57-year-old fantasy of a natural gas pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to tidewater at Cook Inlet or the ice-free Port of Valdez, the Chinese are ...

What should have been the main lesson learned by the survivors of the pandemic of the old and the ill would appear to have been missed by those most vulnerable in these unUnited States. Researchers ...

Comes now that holiday season when so many will be walking on eggshells at family gatherings in an angry nation. Credit, in part, a political establishment that feasts on breeding discontent among the ...

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 was 98 years old when he departed on Tuesday. ‘Old ...

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 Kingdom, has launched a ...

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.

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 ...