Iditarod director leaving While most of the sporting world was Friday chattering about the FIFA World Cup, the July Fourth start of the Tour de France, or the latest NFL star facing […]
Bye, bye Rob
Another bailout
Cash rewards for bad behavior For decades, commercial setnet fishermen working the beaches on the east side of Cook Inlet fought efforts to alter their fishery to reduce the bycatch of king […]
Bearlandia
Anchorage’s rewarding and risky cycling A news analysis Friday was a great day for a gravel-bike ride on the backroads of Anchorage’s Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, where it is common to see more […]
Name games
Dan versus Dan Alaska has a damn Dan problem. Or, maybe more accurately, a Dan Sullivans problem. The state’s Director of Elections on Monday ruled that one of these Sullivans, a neophyte […]
A Big, Big Life
Goodby Daryl A U.S. Marine who emerged from the jungles of Vietnam to become a legend for saving lives as a National Park Service ranger on Mount McKilney has seen his last […]
A ranger’s death
And a lot of questions A news analysis On a mountain where skis have, over the years, increasingly replaced snowshoes as the tool of choice for glacier travel, a National Park Service […]
Healthy fear
A lesson from the pandemic A study published this week by the Journal of the American Medical Association’s (JAMA) Open Network is reporting that the rollout of the first Covid-19 vaccines in […]
Wild Life Invasion
The dangerous Big Wild Life Spring came late to Alaska’s largest city this year on the heels of a brutal winter, and now the wildlife have invaded. Actually, they were always here, […]
Bad year
Iditarod dream dies and then…. As if this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race wasn’t enough of a disaster for “expedition” musher Steve Curtis, the Canadian now has bigger trouble in the […]
Killer roads
Five times deadlier than average With Alaska’s largest city setting records for pedestrian deaths on its streets, the Anchorage Police Department is bragging about its success in corralling rogue drivers during its […]
