On the shoulders of the Chugach Mountains high above Alaska’s largest city, a hunt is underway for Betsy the cow. Many places in the U.S., this would not be news, but there […]
Gone moo
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Lumen wars
No bit of technology has done more to transform the winter trails of the darkest state in the nation than the tiny, light-emitting diode (LED). LED headlights on fat-tired mountain bikes now […]
DOA king fishery
Chinook salmon runs in Upper Cook Inlet have taken a depressing turn back to the future with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game this week announcing the closure of May, June […]
BIG stories
The biggest story of the week in Alaska? Well, you’ve already seen the headline and the photo above so you know, although the moose in the picture topping the story posted by […]
Deadly cold
The brutally cold temperatures that have long defined Alaska were easing across a vast stretch of the Interior on Monday even as the National Weather Service cautioned of the dangers of frostbite […]
Global thermostat?
Fears of global warming have funded a huge volume of scientific investigation over the past decade, and the more that has been learned the more complicated has become the climate picture. The […]
Crazy land
As a prelude to New Year’s Eve in Alaska’s largest city, a magnitude 5.0 earthquake rattled the Anchorage Metropolitan area, the news reported to America. In many places, this would have been […]
News ecology
By now many reading this have heard of the kerfuffle involving the German news weekly Der Speigel and award-winning reporter Claas Relotius, who created “fake news” at a world-class […]
The few, the strong
An Alaska endurance competition so hard that even Iditarod Trail dog mushers think the entrants a little nuts has been crowned the hardest race in the world by the country’s biggest […]
Caribou-boo
Why is it that reporters with a good story to tell sometimes can’t seem to avoid the pit of embellishment that makes journalism look so bad? Here’s Hillary Rosner writing in The […]
