It’s never fun to walk into your garden on a sunny Fairbanks summer day only to find cutworms have sliced your broccoli off at soil level, voles have left tiny tooth marks in your carrots or, worst of ...

An unusually wet, cool summer has made Southcentral Alaska a particularly hospitable place for an invasive slug species that appears to have made a home in Anchorage’s Hillside. Scientists are asking ...

This summer, the real enemy in many Fairbanks gardens wasn’t drought or moose — it was slugs. “I get more calls about slugs every year,” said Gooseberry Peter, agriculture and integrated pest ...

WHITTIER — Volunteers wearing rubber boots and gardening gloves fanned into the woods on a Prince William Sound shoreline last week to confront an invasion. They plucked hundreds of slimy European ...