As the commercial salmon fishing in Alaska heads into the heart of its summer season, the 49th state would appear to be reliving the end of the 20th century, which came to a finish with pretty much ...

With the unUnited States of America having become, collectively, the fattest, unfittest, unhealthiest and, in some ways, unfriendliest nations in the Western world thanks to the road-rage stresses of ...

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 ...

These now unUnited States of America have a drug problem, and it’s a lot bigger than the illicit chemicals that have cost the country more than $1 trillion since the War on Drugs was declared in 1971.

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 ...

Americans are dying at a record rate compared to residents of other Western nations, and the U.S. medical establishment can’t seem to figure out why. JAMA Network just last month headlined “Increasing ...

Angry Canadians are going after the Alaska salmon fishery in the marketplace where propaganda can sometimes do some damage. Ocean Wise, the conservation arm of the Vancouver Aquarium, has declared ...

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 fish trap.” Colt’s ...

Sometimes your problems are largely in your head, according to the latest peer-reviewed research published by JAMA Psychiatry. The shamans, witch doctors, faith healers, medicine men, wizards and ...

Dipnetting for Cook Inlet salmon, which usually doesn’t get underway until the opening of the Kasilof River tomorrow, jumped off to an earlier start last week, but with a twist. The dipnetters went ...

If only we could curb the addiction…. Another study is out concluding that more exercise and improved diets could go a long way toward slowing what has become an epidemic of dementia and Alzheimer’s ...

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 ...