The temperature in Anchorage, Alaska on Sunday hit 51 degrees. It was not a new high, but it came close, missing a tie with the historic record by only a degree. The […]
L(ovely) I(-catching) Office
Anyone living anywhere near Alaska’s largest city should be all in with the state’s $32.5 million, proposed purchase of the L-Eye-Oh, officially the Legislative Information Office, in downtown Anchorage. It’s a small […]
U.S. Navy’s Arctic perimeter
The U.S. Navy staged a war game in America’s forgotten ocean last month. If you missed it, don’t feel alone. Despite a lot of talk about the bright future for the […]
Alaska devours its young
One of the last posts Roger Hannon put on his Facebook page was a meme featuring a tail-walking snowmachine. “Jobs fill our pockets, But adventure fills our souls,” it said. Less […]
Fed fight on subsistence
Alaska’s regulatory subsistence caldron is bubbling again as the federal government tries to rid 49th state wildlife refuges of bear and wolf hunting practices distasteful to some people. Americans used to hunting […]
Better kept quiet
With the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race caught in a wrongheaded but understandable bit of a cover-up this week because the reality of Alaska can be just a little too real, more […]
Alaska Range climber rescued
The annual climbing season in the Alaska Range is still about a month away, but Denali National Park and Preserve is reporting the first, high-altitude rescue of the year. The Park’s Talkeetna-based, […]
Iditarod’s problem?
So now it is official. Not one, but two female mushers in the Iditarod Trial Sled Dog Race were threatened or grabbed by men this year as they traveled along a wild […]
A third Iditarod assault
As alleged Iditarod assailant Arnold Demoski from Nulato was settling into a cell at the Fairbanks Correctional Institute on the evening of March 13, an attack on at least one more Iditarod […]
Iditarod season is over
Austrian hiker Klaus Schweinberger strolled into Nome on Tuesday afternoon to bring to an end the official season of adventure on the Iditarod National Historic Trail. The last to finish the Iditarod […]