By the time you read this, Thanksgiving will be over. I hope you had a good day, enjoying a fine meal with family and/or friends, and watching all the football you could manage. This…

With plenty of snow already blanketing the ski trails around Independence Mine in Hatcher Pass, the MatSu Ski Club is kicking off a full season of trail grooming, lessons and events …

Reloading your own ammunition is an enjoyable hobby and a way to achieve the best accuracy from your firearm. It can also be a substantial cost saver over factory ammo, assuming you …

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A Utah doctor is accused of lying about ill patients in his climbing party to get a high-altitude government helicopter to rescue him off the tallest mountai…

I attended my second “Bang ‘n Clang” shooting match this past Sunday. As I’ve mentioned before, the match consists of a total of forty shots, ten each at four different animal silhou…

Most visitors who access the Matanuska Glacier via the road system and managed parking area will continue to need a guide for each trip thanks to a 2021 change that glacier access ow…

I finished last week’s column with a short mention of using air rifles to stay in shooting shape during this time of ammo and reloading component shortages. Pellets are inexpensive a…

WASILLA — Hatcher Pass Alpine Xperience recently received the Facility Excellence Award for its Skeetawk ski area from the Alaska Recreation and Park Association, spreading a great s…

I helped instruct an online Muzzleloading Hunter Education class this past weekend. The online version of the class occurs primarily on the students’ computers where they are exposed…

The lakes are starting to freeze over, and the nighttime temperatures are in the 20’s. We have a skiff of snow on the ground with the promise of more to come. It’s time to start prep…

As a kid growing up in Michigan during the 50’s, I remember my father taking his old double-barreled 12 gauge shotgun, choked cylinder bore in both barrels, our Springer Spaniel and …

Last week we began discussing the upcoming trapping season and mentioned, in general, some of the steps an ethical and conscientious trapper would follow while trapping. These steps …

A proposed roughly 12-mile bike trail connecting Government Peak Recreation Area (GPRA) with Skeetawk and the 16 Mile area of Hatcher Pass is slated to clear a major approval hurdle …

WASILLA — The Iditarod recently announced the commencement of two new principal partners, Hilcorp Alaska and Harvest Midstream.