As a blunt reminder of the value of salmon to all Alaskans, businessmen and women from the Matanuska-Susitna Borough paraded before the Alaska Board of Fisheries on Saturday to talk business. Money […]
Fishy-nomic war
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Battleground Kenai
Contentious dipnet salmon fisheries and a dispute over a boat ramp on the Kenai Peninsula’s Kasilof River appear to have cost the director of the Alaska Division of Parks and […]
Fatties wanted
The city that helped to start a fad that put fat-tired bikes on winter trails around the globe plans to try again to grab the record for turnout at a fat-tire cycling […]
Fake is everywhere
Fake news is here to stay no matter what anyone does because it is a marketable product. It satisfies the human desire for a good story even if it’s about a bad […]
Killed by cold
In a tragic incident possibly fueled by alcohol, a resident of remote Western Alaska appears to have died of hypothermia only yards from his village home. State officials are still awaiting an […]
Rocket men
How fast can you go cross-country in frozen Alaska today? Pretty damn fast. Todd Minnick and Nick Olstad, a pair of 30-somethings from Wasilla, averaged a traveling speed of 52 mph for […]
Natural born killers
Almost six decades after Alaska became a state, residents of the north and the federal government are at odds again over natural-born killers, only this times from opposite sides. Alaskans want to […]
Faster Iron Dogs
The sun had barely set over the vast Alaska Interior Sunday when Todd Minnick and Nick Olstad led the world’s longest, toughest snowmobile race into the tiny, outpost community of McGrath. […]
On the Iditarod Trail
Alaska’s most famous trail, a trail that owes its place in history to the dogs, will largely be given over to men and machines this year. With the now internationally recognized […]
Judging mountains
The wind was driving snow sideways across the mountains above Alaska’s largest city again on Thursday when the email arrived from Chugach National Forest Trail technician Irene Lindquist noting the high […]
