© 2016 craigmedred.news All Rights Reserved A little over a month ago, 24-year-old Travis Beals from Seward happily rode into Nome behind a team of six dogs to claim his second top-20 […]
Iditarod musher faces domestic violence charges
When journalists make nice, lessons get lost
For want of a shovel, Alaskan Jenny Neyman — writer, editor and enterprising publisher behind the now sorely missed Redoubt Reporter newspaper — and friend Chris Hanna almost died entombed in snow […]
Fall off cliff injured Alaska bear attack victim
The University of Alaska Southeast mountaineering instructor attacked by a bear this week might have suffered the worst of his injuries when the animal knocked him off a cliff. Forest Wagner is […]
When AK bears attack
When a dog bites a man, as a Pulitzer Prize winner observed more than 100 years ago, it is not news. On average, almost 120,000 children between the ages of one and […]
Two bear attacks within days, second victim from UA class
UPDATED — The problems for University of Alaska outdoor programs continue. Less than three weeks after an avalanche in the Alaska Range caught all of the instructors and students in a University […]
Kenai subsistence challenged
A federal agency wants to end a tiny subsistence, gillnet salmon fishery in the Kenai River for almost the exact same reason — bycatch — that more than 43,000 Alaskans in […]
Heaven-sent global warming
Only in Alaska would global warming come as a blessing for the National Park Service. To join with parks across the country in celebrating the 100th birthday of the federal agency, Denali […]
Dog death description only brings more questions
News analysis Anchorage dog shooter Jason Mellerstig has now given a partial account of the events leading up to the killing of a neighbor’s Labrador retriever in her yard in […]
Phantom bear attacks snowboarder in Japan
There’s a sucker born every minute, says the old phrase of much debated origin, and a whole lot of them inhabit the media these days. Some days the naivety is almost unbearable. […]
Alaska devours its young
One of the last posts Roger Hannon put on his Facebook page was a meme featuring a tail-walking snowmachine. “Jobs fill our pockets, But adventure fills our souls,” it said. Less […]
