Goodby Daryl A U.S. Marine who emerged from the jungles of Vietnam to become a legend for saving lives as a National Park Service ranger on Mount McKilney has seen his last […]
A Big, Big Life
A ranger’s death
And a lot of questions A news analysis On a mountain where skis have, over the years, increasingly replaced snowshoes as the tool of choice for glacier travel, a National Park Service […]
Healthy fear
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 […]
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 […]
