Dangerous gale-force winds drove rain and snow across the wilderness of the Chugach Mountains at Anchorage’s back door on Sunday as authorities tried their best to press a search for a member […]
Gone missing in Alaska
A beautifully brutal race
FAIRBANKS — Is it possible a truly nice guy can win the human-powered Iditarod Trail Invitational — the hardest and one of the most potentially dangerous races in the triumvirate of beautifully […]
Bear charges Homer hiker
The grizzly bear that three times charged Homer resident Carlos Lozano this week before being driven off with bear spray really shouldn’t have come as a big surprise, but it did as […]
Out of the land time forgot
FAIRBANKS — A thousand miles after his adventure began, the outlaw cyclist Jeff Oatley pedaled out of the vast, white, nothingness of the upper Yukon River valley into Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada […]
Everybody dies; that’s a fact
A lot of people are going to die today. But don’t panic; you’re not about to read a new Unabomber manifesto or the twisted ramblings of someone about to go on a […]
Free tickets south!
Anyone who thinks Alaska’s current population of almost 800,000 people too big should be all down with Gov. Bill Walker’s plan to reintroduce the income tax, according to Forbes magazine.
Alaska’s biggest problem
Trust is a precious commodity. Once lost, it is difficult, often impossible, to regain. Friendships, marriages and business partnerships die when trust disappears. Many among the 40 to 50 percent of Americans […]
Rural lives matter too
The time has come to talk about the double-standard for wilderness search-and-rescue (SAR) that has existed in the state of Alaska for far too long.
Fish Board blows up again
Just when you think politics can’t get any stranger in Alaska, they get stranger. Gov. Bill Walker, who last year tried to stack the Alaska Board of Fisheries with commercial fishermen, on […]
Is this Alaska’s future?
FAIRBANKS — The deep cold of winter had settled in along the Chena River in the days before Christmas, locking the heart of Alaska’s only real Interior city in a deep freeze. […]
