Never bet against tech Part 3 of a 4-part series Now semi-retired Alaska economist Gunnar Knapp, the nation’s foremost authority on the economics of the Alaska fishing business, offered a ...

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alaska bet on hopes wild fish would sell better and the farmers would falter. Consumers today are looking for a 3/4 to 1 1/2-inch thick filet, or thicker, to throw on the barbeque, slide into the oven ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What value in a human life? The Alaska justice system has finally made Martin J. Richards pay for killing 65-year-old Redzebije Imeri. The cost? $200. Alaska State Court records reflect that this was ...

One of Anchorage’s most unforgettable characters died in Portland on Wednesday when he was struck by a Max Light Rail train. Eighty-one-year-old Michael O’Callaghan was one of those rare do-gooders ...

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 ...

Seventy-nine-year-old Gladys Graf did everything right on her late-morning walk in Anchorage’s Midtown on Monday, and then she died. Anchorage Police say that before crossing busy Benson Boulevard at ...

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 ...