Update: Defending champ Tim Bernston leads the race into The Perrin’s Rainy Pass Lodge with two-time winner Jay Petervary and Neil Beltchenko close on his tail. As dawn broke over the Alaska […]
Iditarod hardmen
Fishy-nomic war
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
For the dogs
Commentary Frank Turner is a 69-year-old musher from Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada with a new idea – a radical new idea – to make life better for the dogs in Alaska’s two […]
Cue the debate
Alaska Sen. Cathy Giessel, a conservatively fiscal Anchorage Republican, has introduced legislation to up the fee on ice-gripping, motor-vehicle tire studs from $5 to $75 in the 49th state, thus fueling the […]
Abbie-normal AK
Just when it looked like the old normal was returning to the far north after a couple of winters that left Alaskans wondering if serious winter warming was the new normal, […]
