Alaska pilots interested in getting up close and personal with Denali National Park should consider a convenient day trip plan that could also include a few other unique features of the area.
The Alaska Energy Authority is funding five new Alaska Department of Fish and Game fish weirs on tributaries of the Susitna River in the coming weeks, in order to understand aquatic resources while working toward a proposed hydroelectric dam.Jerzy Shedlock
Thirty minutes after the official end of the Anchorage's Slam'n Salm'n Derby, Sunday, Tom Baker landed a 44-pound, 8-ounce king salmon. But the Alaska pipefitter has no regrets. Sean Doogan
Word on the street is that Alaska mosquitoes are far worse than normal this summer. But are the blood-suckers really out in force, or do we just have collective amnesia?Laurel Andrews
Flying a Stearman is no walk in the park; it’s a bare bones aircraft that is built for function and not form. The aircraft has a unique history in Alaska as well as in Alabama, Garden and Gun magazine recently discovered.Colleen Mondor
Whether or not temperature records are broken, protracted periods of weather in the high 70s and low 80s are unusual for Anchorage. And Alaskans simply aren't used to this kind of heat.
A new airline's in town with an eye on opening Alaska up -- and bringing prices down -- for Lower 48 flights. A question-and-answer session with Virgin America CEO David Cush.Scott McMurren
Less than two weeks ago, the number of red salmon in Alaska's Copper River made the run sound like a bust. But that's all changed in the past week.Craig Medred
The pilot of a flight that crashed near Petersburg in early June that ended in one fatality and multiple injuries told National Transportation and Safety Board investigators that the accident was his fourth flight of the day.Colleen Mondor
Welcome to summer in the "Big Wild Life," as the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce likes to call it, where the days are long, the wilderness and the wildlife dangerous, and the salmon plentiful.Craig Medred
