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 ...

Take it from Ann Bryant, executive director of the Tahoe, Calif., Bear League, bears don’t kill people because “we’ve never had a bear kill anybody.” This is what she told the Los Angeles Times in the ...

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Update: This story was revised to include more information on lightning deaths. The New York Times, a journal pretty much out of its element anywhere west of the headwaters of the Ohio River, is now ...

The coming year marks the 30th anniversary of the state of Alaska’s attempt to control world salmon markets by banning fish farming in the 49th state. ASMI once promoted the idea that Alaska wild ...

Alaska salmon farmers who annually turn almost 2 billion hatchery fish loose to feed on the pastures of the North Pacific Ocean finally appear to have caught the attention of Canadians who’ve for ...

With a record number of pedestrians dead in Anchorage last year, the state Department of Transportation has proposed a new, high-speed roadway through the heart of the state’s largest city. Mainly, ...

Now 82 years old, Virgil Umpenhour has been at war with Alaska’s commercial salmon farmers, or ranchers as they prefer to call themselves, for most of his adult life. For decades, he battled without ...

The driver who killed 48-year-old Fairbanks cyclist Matt Glover on the Richardson Highway in October 2022 is now telling his version of what happened. Then 66-year-old Fred Aker first contacted this ...

Icy waters have killed another packrafter, the third in the last eight years to die in one of the rivers of glacier-dominated eastern Alaska. Forty-ninth state adventurer Roman Dial once described the ...