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 […]
Bring in the feds
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 […]
Deadly roof designs
UPDATE: The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner late on Monday reported that the child had died. The report came with snow again falling in parts of Alaska’s largest city. It was mixed with rain […]
China’s AK salmon
The Juneau-based Sealaska Corporation looks to be expanding its move back into the Alaska fishing business in a big way via Seattle and China. Seafood Source.com on Friday was reporting the regional […]
Iditarod crossroads
Commentary Before the last of the ice melts from frozen Fairbanks, Alaska, and the 2017 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race fully disappears into the ground blizzard of history, it might be a […]
A richer Iditarod
The rumored $1 million dollar Iditarod reached Nome earlier this month. No, it wasn’t the dog sled race. It was a Chinese tour, which some along the Iditarod Trail nicknamed the […]
The places we go 2
The Alaska Railroad was reporting a temperature of 8 degrees below zero at the head of Turnagain Arm east of Anchorage at 9 a.m. on Saturday. Doug O’Harra pointed this out […]
Alaska’s dying moose
The 49th state’s long run of what some thought might be the new normal of global warming is over. The old normal is back with snow and cold, and there are indications […]
