I make uuraq in Mom’s old pot, blackened on the outer bottom from years of feeding kids cold from the slough water. I cut males with big humps we saved into steaks, just like Mom used to.Laureli Kinneen
OPINION: Soothing high tensions that have followed the death of a Taiwanese fisherman shot by the Phillipine Coast Guard in waters claimed by both countries could become a model for resolving larger issues in the contentious region.Charles I-hsin Chen
Photos dubbed "the place where two oceans meet" have been making the rounds on the Internet for years, but there's a lot of misinformation out there about them. Here's what you can tell your friend next time they share that "really cool photo" on social media.Ben Anderson
As Pavlof Volcano's eruption continued, the International Space Station caught a stunning image of steam and ash emanating from the Southwest Alaska peak. And seismic data indicates it may not be over.Liz Fuller-Wright
With 137 million objects, artworks and specimens, it is to be expected that curators at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C., known as “the nation’s attic,” might have some questions about items in their collections.Colleen Mondor
The bizarre ordeal over the leadership of the Alaska Republican Party appears to have come to the end of the road in Homer. Appeals filed by two former, short-lived party chairs have been rejected, and Peter Goldberg has been named chairman permanently.Jerzy Shedlock
La Baleine Café brings the talents of Kirsten and Carl Dixon and daughters Mandy and Carly to Homer, an artsy Alaska town with its own special food culture.Michael Armstrong
Photos dubbed "the place where two oceans meet" have been making the rounds on the Internet for years, but there's a lot of misinformation out there about them. Here's what you can tell your friend next time they share that "really cool photo" on social media.
Commercial harvesters in the famed Copper River salmon fishery boosted their catch by 190,000 reds, 1,400 kings and 2,300 chums in the second 12-hour opener May 20, about double that of the inclement weather endured for the May 16 opener.Margaret Bauman
The brilliant Marilyn vos Savant -- and most Alaskans -- argue that we should elminate mosquitoes and improve our lot in life. Would we end up missing them? Could we bear the cost of their demise?Rick Sinnott
Twenty years after Chris McCandless died alone in an abandoned bus on the edge of the real Alaska wilderness, some people still don't understand the fundamental lesson of his death.Craig Medred
Most of the fishermen on trial were contrite, some tearful, one or two a little angry about being charged with violating a ban on fishing for Chinook salmon intended to prevent damage to the species.
It's the papa bears, not females, that humans should be worried about, according to new research. Most fatal bear attacks involved lone males with one thing in mind: Human lunch.Doug O'Harra
Assembly-line justice played out in a Bethel courtroom as the Alaska Native defendants from last summer's fishery revolt on the Kuskokwim River said their piece and awaited their sentence.Craig Medred
