07/14/11 Ocean fishing for halibut, ling cod and rockfish has been on fire. Homer, Seward and Whittier are all popular points of departure. Silver and pink salmon are being caught in Prince William Sound, so don't forget your jigs, circle hooks, hoochies and herring.
07/11/11 If Alaska's Native languages vanish in the next generation, it won't be because people didn't try hard to keep them alive, says Gary Holton.
04/23/11 The late Bob Philip, former Midlander and plant manager of Scientific Anglers here, always had the same take on the trout opener.
03/12/11 Hugh Neff leads Iditarod, also got gourmet meal, cash for being first musher into Anvik
02/09/11 The Chattanooga Area Chapter of Safari Club International (SCI) will hold its annual fundraising banquet at the Chattanooga Choo Choo on February 26 beginning at 5:00 PM.
02/03/11 In Tunisia, the young people who helped bring down a dictator are called hittistes -- French-Arabic slang for those who lean against the wall. Their counterparts in Egypt, who on Feb. 1 forced President Hosni Mubarak to say he won't seek reelection, are the shabab atileen, unemployed youths. The hittistes and shabab have brothers and sisters across the globe. In Britain, they are NEETs -- "not ...
01/18/11 For 20 years, whenever a push was made to protect the massive Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the land in Alaska was left as is because the state's U.S. senators wouldn't let the government touch it. "Nobody knew what to do," former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday during a symposium at the National Conservation Training Center commemorating the refuge's 50th anniversary. The refuge was ...
12/18/10 NORTH POLE, Alaska - Every kid knows that Santa, his eight tiny reindeer, and a whole cadre of elves live in the North Pole. A lot of what kids expect to see in the mythical North Pole, includin...
11/24/10 Like most buck poles, enthusiasm waned after Opening Week, but some fresh pics came in today.
11/24/10 Gov. Sean Parnell and the Alaska Energy Authority announced Wednesday they are endorsing development of a large Susitna River hydroelectric project.
11/14/10 If ever there is a place on this earth I want to hunt and fish it's Alaska. Not just because Sarah Palin lives there, although I would like to meet her, but for the remote fishing and hunting found there.
11/10/10 World War II veteran Al Cherven knew information before fellow soldiers and citizens stateside did while he was serving in Europe, but he said a recent trip to Washington D.C. was both an educational and emotional eye opener.
10/30/10 Aaron Dupuis lost his fish. Last year the graduate student installed radio tags on a few dozen whitefish in a maze of lakes near Minto. Using a radio receiver, he followed some fish up the Chatanika River to where they spawned, but the location of about 40 others was a mystery.
10/27/10 Aaron Dupuis lost his fish. Last year, the graduate student installed radio tags on a few dozen whitefish in a maze of lakes near Minto, Alaska. Using a radio receiver, he followed some fish up the Chatanika River to where they spawned, but the location of about 40 others were a mystery.
10/02/10 SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. -- Andrew Gale has caught a lot of fish in a lot of places, including a 200-pound striped marlin off Mexico that he fought for four hours in tropical heat. no read more
09/09/10 Saying goodbye to loyal readers never has been easy. I had to do it years ago when the Washington Daily News and the Washington Star closed their doors and ceased publication. But to this day I've never been able to shake the rotten feeling that comes with saying a ...
08/26/10 You'll find it among fishing books at bookstores. But Cecilia "Pudge" Kleinkauf's third fishing title, "Fly-Fishing For Alaska's Arctic Grayling -- Sailfish of the North" -- is more an ode to a fish that reaches trophy status at three pounds than any run-of-the-mill how-to fishing book.
08/20/10 Rainbow trout returned to Scout Lake Wednesday after a five-year battle to get rid of invasive northern pike.
08/20/10 In this August 18, 2010, photo, workers from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game watch some of the 19,000 grayling and rainbow trout they released into Sport Lake in Sterling, Alaska.
08/19/10 Rainbow trout returned to Scout Lake Wednesday after a five-year battle to get rid of invasive northern pike. Alaska Department of Fish and Game personnel released 9,500 rainbow trout and 9,500 arctic grayling into the lake two years after it received a chemical treatment. | 
