After the smallest Kenai River dipnet catch in eight years, there are hints that the little people of Alaska’s urban core might at last be arriving at the realization that they are […]
Last Great Race
Tough Iditarod Trail
deemed “unsafe”
Glacier dams Knik
A lobe of the Knik Glacier has cut off the flow of the river of the same name near Palmer, Alaska, leaving some recent visitors to the remote headwaters wondering if a […]
Ethiconomics
Ode to Abbie Hoffman’s counter-culture best seller: “Steal This Book.”
Of moose and men
If a moose dies in the center of Alaska’s urban heartland…. Well, suffice to say, it’s not the same as if one of the big ungulates wanders into the Yukon River village […]
Credibility problems
Update two: It’s complicated. The moose was injured. It was later shot not once, but twice to end its suffering. It wasn’t hit by a car as the charity that butchered it […]
Death count rising
Fresh off the deadliest year in Alaska history, the 49th state’s largest city is continuing on a murderous pace that – if it continues – would rank Anchorage among the country’s top-20 […]
Iditarod frets snow
With 14 inches of snow blanketing the Iditarod Trail at Puntilla Lake on the south side of the Alaska Range and 6- to 8-inches on the ground at Rohn on the north […]
Warming reprieve
For the second month in a row, Anchorage, Alaska has been left out in the cold. A record run of 14 months with temperatures above the norm ended in December and the […]
AK flu is back
Fatigue? Headache? Chest discomfort? Maybe a sore throat and a runny nose? You just might have the flu. It has been spreading across Alaska’s urban core.
