With new, loose snow more than a foot deep in the mountains that shade Anchorage and hurricane-force winds in the forecast for Monday evening, Alaska’s largest city appeared poised to be clobbered […]
Bad wind rising
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Journalist who?
When a public official refuses to take a reporter’s questions, what is a journalist to do? Go to court to demand a judge order the official to do so? Well, that’s exactly […]
Threatened
After decades of opposing industrial development in the waters near the southern end of Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, the City of Homer is now going to bat for an industrial-scale fish farm the […]
The fatty fad
The year 2020 began with one of many bike publications suggesting the market for fat bikes – possibly the only international fad rooted and fostered in Alaska – is on the verge […]
Old normal
While most of the United States was this year zigging into the fourth warmest November in recorded history, Alaska – or at least the most populated part of it – was […]
Disease targets
With a reportedly effective vaccine for COVID-19 promising to help torpedo the largest pandemic in 100 years, is America’s biggest health problem soon to be ignored once again? But first another question: […]
AK #1 worst
Alaska has won another dubious distinction – this time claiming the dishonor as home to the worst drivers in the country. But anyone who has commuted on the Glenn Highway between Palmer […]
Goodbye Duane
The saga of Ose Mountain appears to be over. All indications are that the 78-year-old Duane Ose has left the state and given up on his attempt to reclaim the remote Alaska […]
Big, four-headed volcano
With one natural phenomenon already ravaging the globe in the form of the newly evolved SARS-CoV-2 virus, scientists are now warning they might have found the potential for another natural disaster far […]
Big losers
Unhappy with how the Alaska Board of Fisheries was managing the waters that lap at the doorstep of Alaska’s urban core, the United Cook Inlet Drift Association (UCIDA) – the powerful commercial […]
