Speculation was running rife and all over the place on Wednesday as the word came that President-elect Donald S. Trump, Alaska’s biggest landowner, had finally named a property manager. Montana Rep. […]
The new landlord
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The minds of killers
The inexplicable execution of 16-year-old David Grunwald by Matanuska-Susitna valley teenagers he thought his friends has brought back horrible memories for some in the Interior Alaska city of Fairbanks. It was there […]
The truth police
Commentary The new truthers have latched onto “fake news,” and the need to clean up the internet. It is a good and holy cause, but the people invested in this idea are […]
Troubled valley gang
Four more people – including three more teenagers who apparently envisioned themselves part of some sort of Matanuska-Susitna Valley gang – have been charged in connection with the inexplicable pistol-whipping, abduction and […]
Lone wolf survivor
A white wolf that isn’t supposed to be alive has finally made the news in Alaska’s largest city. KTUU.com on Friday reported the wolf in Anchorage after television station viewer LeRoy Polk […]
Sled Dogs = Blackfish
Sea World Entertainment, the mother company for the popular marine parks of the same name across the southern tier of the United State, this week announced the layoff of more than 320 […]
Musher murdered
A Scottish dog musher with ties to Alaska and the global mushing scene has died in a bizarre murder in Finland. The BBC is reporting that 26-year-old Rebecca Johnson, who went […]
David’s Law
In the wake of the horrific and almost unbelievable execution-style murder of a 16-year-old Palmer, Alaska, youth – allegedly at the hands of a similarly aged teen – a 49th-state educator has suggested […]
Fattest fattie
By stealing an idea from some of the first, fledgling “fat bikes” of Alaska’s fabled “Iditabike,” a Canadian adventure has created the fattest of the fat – a super-wide-tired monster he hopes […]
Cold, dark and dying
December in Alaska is always a grim time of year buoyed only temporarily by holiday cheer. The shortening of the days is impossible to avoid. Nine-to-5ers can go from home to […]
