Independence Day is one of the few American holidays that always falls on the same date — July 4, of…
Recently up in Anchorage a wolf ate a small dog running loose on a hiking trail. Some people suggested installing…
Alaska has two seasons, the old joke goes: winter and road construction. We all know about road construction. You can’t…
We’re in a lull right now with the summer tourist season. Although shops and restaurants have opened on the Spit,…
Heat. Frost. An earthquake. Wildfires. Smoke. High winds. Snow. Aren’t you glad to see the end of May? While the…
Years ago the Betster visited West Palm Beach, Fla., for a wedding of a friend. A couple of friends from…
Well, we all knew it couldn’t last. Here we’ve been on an awesome super sunny day roll, and what happens?…
Here at the News it takes a Cray supercomputer to keep track of everyone’s summer vacation schedules. We’re guessing a…
Warm weather, soft spring rains, trees turning green, thousands of shorebirds arriving and businesses opening on the Homer Spit. Can…
If we were commissars, we’d be polishing our medals and fluffing up our big fur for the big May Day…
Recently our reporters made two separate forays to Portland, Ore. No, this wasn’t a big story investigating the People’s Republic…
Some have been blaming the Post Office’s long lines of late to “T” time. We’re not talking “tee” time as…
