September 2, 2010

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Nushagak River: Fishing for credit

cast-20100813img_0547Most of summer school is a grind. Not the Bristol Bay Guide Academy. At this school, students learned fly fishing.

Mushroom mania in Alaska

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Anchorage's record-breaking cool, wet summer has a silver lining -- fungus -- and mushroom lovers couldn't be happier. Cook and writer Laurie Helen Constantino shares tips about picking and preparing mushrooms, as well as recipes.

Dry wood is good wood

When it comes to firewood, dry is best -- for heat and for air quality -- but how long it takes to dry depends on local humidity, and experts are trying to spread the word.

When a bear wants to join the hot tub party, what's an ex-governor to do?

frank-murkowskiHow Frank Murkowski fended off a grizzly bear at his remote Alaska cabin.

Photographers capture northern lights

People in Canada, Wisconsin, Iowa and even Antarctica caught the recent aurora borealis display. But did any Alaskans get a view of the show?

21 years later, Exxon Valdez story is still complicated

0802-exxon21laterIt's hard now for me to know what exactly to think about the Exxon Valdez spill, but from the waterfront here, looking out across the clean waters of Passage Canal, the one thing that is easy to recognize is that none of the story is simple as some today make it out to be.

Photo essay: Let the harvest frenzy begin

ak-ag-thumbValley farmers are busy harvesting as the vegetable season kicks into gear.

Rain curses, graces the Alaska landscape

birch-rain-dispatchThis summer's rain has been depressing for many Alaskans. But it's not all bad news. Rain can be a good thing.