A lesson from the pandemic A study published this week by the Journal of the American Medical Association’s (JAMA) Open Network is reporting that the rollout of the first Covid-19 vaccines in […]
Healthy fear
Wild Life Invasion
The dangerous Big Wild Life Spring came late to Alaska’s largest city this year on the heels of a brutal winter, and now the wildlife have invaded. Actually, they were always here, […]
Bad year
Iditarod dream dies and then…. As if this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race wasn’t enough of a disaster for “expedition” musher Steve Curtis, the Canadian now has bigger trouble in the […]
Killer roads
Five times deadlier than average With Alaska’s largest city setting records for pedestrian deaths on its streets, the Anchorage Police Department is bragging about its success in corralling rogue drivers during its […]
Likin’ it hot
Dissing the land of ice and snow Amid all the reported concern about global warming and deadly heat waves, one might have thought Alaska or at least, Minnesota – the state trying […]
And so it ends
No fed takeover of AK salmon The Supreme Court of the United States has put an end to the maximum-sustained-yield (MSY) dream of disgraced Alaska Board of Fisheries member Roland Maw and […]
Winners all
The long, cold ride ends at last Two days after the self-proclaimed “Last Great Race” came to an end in Nome, a Brazilian cyclist now living in Boulder, Colo., led the […]
Last leader
One last Iditarace Alaska’s Iditaseason is winding to close with moose-war musher Jesse Holmes claiming a second, consecutive Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race victory in Nome; a lot of talk swirling around […]
Iditarod record
Expedition musher trounces the field Update: And the wealthy geezer from Norway has become the first musher in history to break the Iditarod’s eight-day barrier, though the Iditarod standings don’t report […]
Yukon convergence
Iditarod races hit Ruby The winter, crossroad community of Ruby, Alaska – where the Iditarod Trail meets the frozen Yukon River – was a busy place today with Norway’s dynamic, […]
