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 […]
A beautifully brutal race
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 […]
The new and truly “Iceland”
Raindrops were sprinkling Alaska’s largest city again Thursday, and suddenly the year-old climate-change speculation about Anchorage transforming into “a less sunny version of Seattle” wasn’t so funny.
If you’re going to Canada: Do not ride your bike
The United States and Canada once shared one of the friendliest borders in the world. No more, it would seem.
Attacked by a bear? It may be your fault
Wild animals still rarely prey on humans, but assaults by big-toothed, long-clawed critters are on the upswing in the developed world and if you are attacked odds are near 50-50 that you […]
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 […]
New poll: Alaska ‘sucks’
A Thursday poll of Alaskans found them rating the 49th state the worst place in America to live.
Alaska Fish Board bail out
As if the Alaska Legislature didn’t have enough on its plate with the state budget spinning into a $3.5 billion abyss, there’s now bad news out of the Alaska Board of Fisheries.
The tough guy
After the beat down the frozen Iditarod Trail put on Pennsylvanian Tim Hewitt last year, a lesser man would have taken his swollen, frostbit fingers and his red, puffed-up-like-potato feet home, plopped […]
