Women have purses in which to carry all their junk; farmers have their pickup trucks. Each pickup is as individual as the farmer who drives it. Some are pristine and kept as polished as the day ...

The good news about pre-season planter maintenance is that much of the work is relatively simple: changing/adjusting disk openers, replacing gauge wheels, etc. The annoying news is that you have ...

Otter Street Fishing Club President Chris Anderson says there are about 14-16 inches of ice in the area. "It's very busy out there. And we have, I think we have four bridges out there. And then we ...

Seattle satirist Maria Semple’s breakthrough novel is a flurry of contemporary, epistolary wit. Passive aggressive e-mail ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Education: University of Illinois, B.S. in communications and M.S. in communications Dan Balz is chief correspondent at The Washington Post. He joined The Post in 1978 and has been involved in ...

Dan Thomas has been a weather fanatic for as long as he can remember. As a small child, in his hometown of North Andover, MA, he loved to stare out the window, watching New England's powerful ...

President-elect Donald Trump announced the appointment of Stephen Vaden as deputy secretary of USDA for his upcoming administration. Vaden, who served as general counsel for USDA during Trump’s ...

Perched on the waterfront like a cheery, oversized Lego creation, the Alaska King Crab Company in Ketchikan is a feast for ...

A permitting system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more profitable. But over the last 50 years, it has hollowed out many ...

The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in protest of conditions in highest-security prisons. By Alissa Wilkinson ...

So there you have it, folks – eight unassuming spots in Alaska that prove great seafood doesn’t need a red carpet, just a great chef and an ocean nearby. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a plane to ...