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Dipping for red gold

The Kasilof beach is cool and calm at 10 a.m. on Monday as Yolanda Thomas emerges from her family-sized tent for a morning of dipnetting on the shore of the Kasilof River.

Anchorage commercial real estate looking up

There's been plenty of buzz over the last year about a cooling off in the Anchorage real estate market. But what's going on in Anchorage's commercial real estate market is quite different.

First Nations will watch gas pipeline closely

Alaska legislators considering whether to award a natural gas pipeline license and $500 million in planning dollars to TransCanada Corp. on Sunday shifted their focus away from all the Alaska aspects of the pipeline to look at the Canadian challenges involved.

Alaska Railroad to renovate historical shed to create office space

Construction and site preparation will begin in August at Anchorage's Ship Creek on a renovation project that Alaska Railroad Corp. plans to develop some 36,000 square feet of environmentally friendly commercial office space.

Alaska Airlines wants more miles for its flights

For the 3 million people who use the Alaska Airlines mileage plan to fly around the country, the program is getting less rewarding.

Mystery postcards set for special delivery

After a 26-year delay, the postcards Olga Jigliotti mailed from Italy to her son in East Anchorage are getting a sweet -- almost bittersweet -- postscript.

PFD checks could top $2,000

This year's Permanent Fund dividend check is likely to be -- get ready to smile -- more than $2,000. It'll be the first time since the state began making the payments in 1982 that the dividend has topped two grand. The biggest dividend so far was $1963.86 in 2000. Last year's was $1,654.

Caribou slaighter near Point Hope leaves calves stranded

Hunters from the villages of Point Hope and Kivalina are suspected of massacring more than 100 caribou and leaving at least half of them to rot on the tundra earlier this month, according to Alaska Wildlife Troopers.

Gloomy summer set for infamy

Right now the so-called summer of '08 is on pace to produce the fewest days ever recorded in which the temperature in Anchorage managed to reach 65 degrees.

Catching every drop

The Anchorage area averages less than 16 inches of precipitation a year: That's rain, drizzle, dew, ice and snow -- less than 16 inches a year -- and why, green as things seem, our area is considered an arctic desert by those who classify these things.

Ice fishing in June?

Summer solstice marked the beginning of the warm season last week, but two Anchorage fly-fishermen discovered Monday morning that winter still lingers deep in the Chugach Mountains.

Back on his home turf

Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens declared his innocence before a large, supportive crowd as he returned to Anchorage on Monday for the first time since his indictment.

Popp wins the Fireweed 400

Not until Rocky Reifenstuhl got off his bike at the finish line here after 400 miles in the saddle did the extent of his pain from a recent car accident become clear.

Stranded tourists rescued from Mount Marathon

A woman too scared to climb down Mount Marathon was helped off Seward's famous mountain just before midnight Saturday after an eight-hour rescue effort by the Alaska Mountain Rescue Group, the Seward Volunteer Fire Department and the Alaska State Troopers.

Icebound vessels near Barrow work free

A ship hired by oil companies to study Canadian waters for potential drilling made an unexpected stop Tuesday afternoon when it and two support vessels found themselves temporarily stuck in sea ice near Barrow, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.