This story was updated and corrected on April 27, 2017 The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is long over, but “Sled Dogs” the movie lives on with director Fern Levitt showing no […]
Sled-dog summer
The NIMBY state
Before scientists in Alaska ever got a chance to study what might have been the strangest of all hydroelectric projects – one that could benefit salmon – it died in the […]
Hug a tourist
The National Park Service’s latest report on the economic bang Alaska gets from the state’s 54 million acres of parks is out, and the number is what President Donald Trump might call […]
Best of cooling
The winter of 2016-17 will be remembered as the year the Alaska warming trend took a pause before delivering one of those best-of-the-north springs. It was the year Mother Nature cooked […]
The dog death news
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is long over and already near forgotten, and “Sled Dogs,” the controversial movie critical of the commercial use of sled dogs for racing and tours, has […]
Victim of the state
Once revered for world-leading skills at managing wild salmon, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game today finds itself under attack as incompetent as the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council begins court-ordered […]
Bring in the feds
In the 49th state of the United States, home to legions of politicians who have complained for decades about what they call “federal over-reach,” Gov. Bill Walker has been slowly but steadily […]
The thin line
A product of Anchorage, AK from his youth, Danny Maroney lived the big wild, life until it killed him at an age when he was settling into those senior years when a […]
Last of her pack
Updated with video at 4 p.m. April 6, 2017, and audio at 4 p.m. April 7, 2017 The surprise last-survivor of a wolf pack the Alaska Department of Fish and Game once […]
Fat-bike danger zone
AT THE HEAD OF TURNAGAIN ARM, ALASKA – Call it the “Invasion of the Fat Bikes,” the new recreational madness that has doubled the trouble for the Alaska Railroad here along the […]
