Craig Medred

The Port Valdez salmon ranch/Valdez Fisheries Development Association The great hatchery promise With Alaska on track to post its worst salmon harvest since 1979, it’s time to revisit the promise made to the state’s once taxpaying voters when they ponied…

Spokeswoman “Jane M,” Outside actress or concerned Alaskan?

The big pink disappearance/ADF&G graph And the ocean taketh away The 2026 commercial salmon season in Alaska is not yet over, but it can already be called a full-on disaster in Prince William Sound, the heartland of salmon farming in the nation’s northern…

‘A rough and tumble with a grizzly’/Sketches of Hudson Bay Life, 1874-1880 The Big (too) Wild Life With the Chugach Mountain foothills above Anchorage averaging a bear mauling a month in this, the summer of 2026, some seem to be getting a little edgy about

Has a new don wannabe What a way to end the week.

YouTube/Majority Forward, a Democrat-aligned PAC Outside help AK Dems don’t need What, in God’s name, are Democrats thinking in trying to tie Sen.

And Permanent Fund misdemeanors Alaska Democrats are upset that Sen.

Cheating death everyday Gallup Poll, a surveyor of American public opinion since 1935, is now reporting that the greatest fear of more than a third of Americans is that they will be killed or maimed in a motor vehicle collision.

No, it’s not Norway; it’s an Alaska salmon ranch/Facebook, VFDA Alaska hatchery salmon gone missing The grand vision of an Alaska commercial salmon fishing industry stabilized by the hand of man producing fish in hatcheries and sending them to graze the s…

Prince William Sound all-species salmon harvest to date/Alaska Department of Fish and Game Sound salmon fisheries collapsing With the normal peak of Prince William Sound salmon returns now in the rearview mirror, the ocean-farming heartland of the 49th st…