The state has a chance to protect anglers’ access to fishing streams under a bill that unanimously passed the Senate today. The bill by Anchorage Democrat Les Gara passed the House last year ...

Because Alaska’s fishing fleet is getting older. The average fishermen is a decade older than they would have been in 1975 — the typical permit holder is 50. Jim Moore turned 71 this year.

State Rep. Les Gara and Gov. Sean Parnell may be on opposite sides of America's yawning liberal-conservative divide, but there's finally something on which they can agree: Let's go fishing. But ...