Miki Collins ventures into the wilderness to hunt moose... but that is not the only animal she finds.
Pioneers of Alaska Museum at Pioneer Park
As technology gets more complex, so do our habits to stay safe online.
A great wall of ice, and the treasures that it hold for scientists.
Friendship and connection thrive today, as we’re in a bubbly and social mood. It could be an excellent day for a party or an informal get-together. If we’re feeling a little more spontaneous, a last-minute or impromptu outing with a friend could feed the wanderlust we’re feeling now. For tho…
It takes the perfect mix of atmospheric conditions to see one of the rarest auroras.
From the 1911 completion of the Copper River and Northwestern Railway (CR&NW) until the mid 1930s, Cordova’s economy was primarily dependent on the railway and shipment of copper ore from the mines at Kennecott.
The heart of Merritt Helffeicrh’s memoir, “Some Days You Eat the Bears”, is a collection of tales about his life in Alaska. The arc of his story is a familiar one to many who came here right out of school, seeking adventure and purpose: “I just came up for a while to check it out and ended u…
‘Originally I learned to bead and sew from my grandmas at home and one of my aunts,” Blanche Sam said. “My aunt showed me how to make the earrings.” Now as an adult, Sam runs Brilliant Beads by Blanche out of her Fairbanks home, where she draws on Athabascan traditions to design earrings tha…
If you happened to be in the right spot and were looking up in late September, you might have seen a fireball in the Alaska sky, caused by a space rock encountering the sudden friction of gas molecules in our atmosphere.
Editor’s note: This is one of a series of columns exploring bowhead whales and the bowhead whale exhibit now on display at the University of Alaska Museum of the North.
As autumn starts to leave and freeze-up sets in, the changes happen noticeably fast.
Winter has come early to Interior Alaska this year, and many outdoor enthusiasts are making the adjustment to the cold weather version of their favorite activities. Four wheeler riders are tuning up their snow machines, cyclists are dusting off their fat bikes, and skiers can soon quit ridin…
While most kids are content to play air guitar and eventually get a day job, David Resch bought a real one and pursued his rock 'n roll dreams from Fairbanks down to the West Coast for more than three decades.
The museum on the UAF campus serves as one of the primary repositories for archaeological collections for Alaska.
Hector Douglas has said yes to any chance to visit the windy islands of the Aleutian Chain or farther north in the Bering Sea. It's all to study the crested auklet, the small seabird with a bright orange beak.
The townsite of Dyea sits at the beginning of the Chilkoot Trail. During 1897/1898 it was a fierce competitor with neighboring Skagway, just five miles away.
Editor’s note: This is one of a series of columns exploring bowhead whales and the bowhead whale exhibit now on display at the University of Alaska Museum of the North.
Blushing blueberries bushes and flaming high-bush cranberry leaves, hunter-orange bunchberries and dark blood-red cranberries ... they all serve as a backdrop for autumn in the Bush.
In deciduous plants, senescence means about the same as what it does in humans — the process of deterioration with age.
Armed Services YMCA helped with free winter clothing for 250 school-aged children on Fort Wainwright through the ASYMCA Bargain Shop.
It’s late September and across Alaska bears are scrambling to consume as many final calories as possible ahead of their long hibernation period. This includes those who swarm into Brooks River in Katmai National Park every summer, gorging themselves on the massive salmon runs that enter thro…
The cases have been few since the virus was discovered in 2015. Now, researchers want to know more about it.
Selina Alexander describes herself as an Athabascan beadwork artist, but that’s only part of what she does.
Captain William Moore is credited with laying the groundwork for the birth of Skagway.
Our Labor Day canoe trip went a day long, and almost a boat short.
Editor’s note: This is one of a series of columns exploring bowhead whales and the bowhead whale exhibit now on display at the University of Alaska Museum of the North.
My sister Julie and I are looking forward to a proposed months-long visit in 2022 from a second cousin twice removed, a hard-working gal and recent high school graduate who has spent just enough time here to have some slight intimation about what she’s plunging into. However, I am less confi…
It’s not easy playing second banana. One can be remarkably skilled, dependable in a crisis, and play an instrumental role in the success (or failure) of an endeavor, yet be largely forgotten as the marquee names hog the limelight. Such is the case of Francis Crozier. Placed in command of the…
Equally adept at capturing both Alaska’s wild and human sides, her work ranges from broad panoramas to closeups, and from photojournalism to posed studies of people.
Older readers may remember the gray whale rescue from contemporary news accounts. Younger readers may know of it from Hollywood’s dramatization a generation later, in the 2012 film, “Big Miracle.”
