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

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.
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.
How Frank Murkowski fended off a grizzly bear at his remote Alaska cabin.
People in Canada, Wisconsin, Iowa and even Antarctica caught the recent aurora borealis display. But did any Alaskans get a view of the show?
It'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.
Valley farmers are busy harvesting as the vegetable season kicks into gear.
This summer's rain has been depressing for many Alaskans. But it's not all bad news. Rain can be a good thing.