Editor’s note: This is one of a series of columns exploring the bowhead whale exhibit now on display at the University of Alaska Museum of the North.
This scene shows the Fairbanks Exploration Company yard at Dome Creek near Fairbanks where the company had a gold dredge operating.
To the delight of the local mosquitoes, Nicholas Hasson steps through a tangle of prickly spruce branches while wearing a backpack that holds a scientific instrument.
"I tried three times in my youth to write,” Fairbanks author David Marusek said. “And something always held me back.” Then, in 1986, when he found his life at a crossroads. “I said to myself, ‘What a perfect time to finally start writing.’ And that’s when it happened.”
Kenai Lake, located 20 miles north of Resurrection Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, has hosted visitors since the early 1900s. During the Cook Inlet gold rush in the mid to late 1890s a winter-only trail (following Dena’ina Athabascan paths) was blazed between Resurrection Bay and Cook Inlet’s Tu…
I was sitting in a sunny spot on my porch reading Dara McAnulty’s “Diary of a Young Naturalist” when a shadow passed the window, briefly blotting out the light. I looked up to see a hawk swoop into our maple tree, a small wriggling creature trapped in its claw.
It's an installation nearly 60 years in the making.
I just so happened to be stretched out on good ol’ Mother Earth the other night when an earthquake happened.
This isn't your residential suburban neighborhood.
Among the events that transpired during Alaska’s pioneer days, the story of the first ascent of Denali’s southern peak remains one of the most intriguing. In 1913, four men with complex and sometimes deeply conflicting personalities, and limited to no mountaineering experience, reached the h…
Her work will go on display Friday at Bear Gallery in the Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts.
The 70-year-old author said the honor feels validating to someone who never held a traditional job at the university.
Douglas was beset by problems early on, including fires, floods and mine cave-ins.
A masterpiece. An absolute masterpiece. Those are the only words that accurately describe what author Cindy Warbelow has produced with her book “Northern Garden Symphony.” If she has left out anything about how to select, plant and care for a perennial garden that will succeed in the Interio…
The Lathrop High School parent graduation committee would like to sincerely thank each business, individual and all who donated in any fashion to make the LHS Senior Class of 2021 celebration at Growden Park on May 12 so memorable. Our donors are too numerous to name here but please know tha…
Most long time Alaskans have at least one well-thumbed copy of “The Milepost,” which is good for plotting the finer points of planning a road trip, like where to find gasoline and a burger. But it doesn’t offer impassioned arguments for getting you out of your car and actually exploring things. At the other end of the spectrum is Lisa Maloney’s comprehensive “Moon Alaska: Scenic Drives, National Parks, Best Hikes,” which should be on every Alaskan’s bookshelf.
Here are some ways you can involve your child in gardening.
During an eruption that lasted three days, one of the most vibrant landscapes in Alaska in 1912 became the gray badlands known as the Valley of 10,000 Smokes.
I don’t contemplate this lightly; gardening consumes much of my life, from garden sets in April through November pumpkin-processing, and provides the majority of our vegetables for the full year.
The Malemute Saloon and Ester Gold Camp is reopening on May 27. After an almost 11-year-long closure and only a few shows happening last season, the owners Scott Swingle and Jill Rosholt filled the Summer 2021 schedule with music performances and community events.
A new study provides the first high-resolution observations of warm, northbound water sliding beneath the surface of the cold Beaufort Sea.
Wolves with adequate social distancing from humans tend to avoid nasty viruses, scientists have found.
"I bought this camera a couple of years back and had plinked around with it, never really done much with it,” Bob Bashore said, explaining how he began exploring artistic photography. “We were just traveling, driving around. So we started taking the camera. And then it just sort of happened.”
Need a thrilling thriller? A timely nonfiction collection? A trip back to a literary corner of 1920s London? Here they are ... and all in paperback, too.
The Hanlon-Osbakken House at 419 Lincoln St. in Sitka is one of city’s oldest buildings dating from the U.S. period. Because of its early occupants, it also provides a link to the Russian-American Company (RAC) period, and the RAC’s Creole population.
This is how these working moms wrap science and family into one.
You can expect greenup — and your allergies — any day now.
Connectivity and power issues always come with unexpected adventures.
It’s May and the northern hemisphere has woken up, as have its bears. Humans, stirring about after another long winter, are entering the woods, and reports of bear activity are filtering into newspapers and popping up on community social media sites. The uneasy relationship that has existed …
Towering over the landscape at 20,308 feet in height, Denali is the tallest mountain in North America, making it a popular target for mountain climbers. The goal of the National Park Service is to ensure a safe climbing season for all of them, and the soldiers of 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation…
For the longest time, the life of the whitefish remained a mystery. Not any more.
