Friday Harbor sits nestled on the eastern shore of San Juan Island, the second-largest island in an archipelago that seems designed specifically for people who need a break from mainland intensity. It ...

San Juan Island National Historical Park commemorates the Pig War—possibly history’s most peculiar international conflict, triggered by the shooting of a pig in 1859 and resolved without human ...

The public advisory board for the Alaska Marine Highway System has recommended that the state call an end to the Matanuska’s ...

Six fishing periods into Alaska's heralded Copper River sockeye salmon fishery, with a preliminary harvest estimate of 250,049 reds, state fisheries biologists are saying that it's still hard to say ...