Autumn visits like an old friend every year. The crisp cold air brushes my face as I breathe in the earthy decay of leaves that tell us winter is getting closer. I stretch to reach the next handful of ...

Plant growth usually follows predictable limits set by latitude and seasonal daylight. Alaska exists outside that pattern because during peak summer months, large parts of the state experience nearly ...

Wake up, Taakw eetí is almost here! Black bear is yawning, marmot has left her burrow, and spotted frog is groggy. Humans are cleaning out closets, rearranging furniture and shaking out rugs. We clean ...

Nearly every state sets aside a month to celebrate its native plants. In the Lower 48, that month is April. For obvious reasons, that doesn’t work so well in Alaska. Starting in 2023, by formal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Skiffs sit on shore in the Southwest Alaska fishing town of King Cove. (Photo by James Brooks via Flickr under Creative Commons ...

Volunteers work in Anchorage’s Tikishla Park on Aug. 19 to pull out invasive chokecherry trees, also known as European bird cherry trees. The volunteers were participating in a “weed smackdown” that ...

US processor Trident Seafoods is streamlining operations with plans to sell four sites in Kodiak, Alaska. In addition, the privately-owned business, which claims to be the “largest vertically ...

Skiffs sit on shore in the Southwest Alaska fishing town of King Cove. (Photo by James Brooks via Flickr under Creative Commons license) The fishing fleet in the Southwest Alaska town of King Cove ...

For as long as I can remember, I have celebrated wild, native plants. As a boy growing up in Connecticut, such celebrations primarily took the form of joyful explorations with friends through “the ...