As a blunt reminder of the value of salmon to all Alaskans, businessmen and women from the Matanuska-Susitna Borough paraded before the Alaska Board of Fisheries on Saturday to talk business. Money […]
Fishy-nomic war
Fatties wanted
The city that helped to start a fad that put fat-tired bikes on winter trails around the globe plans to try again to grab the record for turnout at a fat-tire cycling […]
Rocket men
How fast can you go cross-country in frozen Alaska today? Pretty damn fast. Todd Minnick and Nick Olstad, a pair of 30-somethings from Wasilla, averaged a traveling speed of 52 mph for […]
Natural born killers
Almost six decades after Alaska became a state, residents of the north and the federal government are at odds again over natural-born killers, only this times from opposite sides. Alaskans want to […]
Faster Iron Dogs
The sun had barely set over the vast Alaska Interior Sunday when Todd Minnick and Nick Olstad led the world’s longest, toughest snowmobile race into the tiny, outpost community of McGrath. […]
On the Iditarod Trail
Alaska’s most famous trail, a trail that owes its place in history to the dogs, will largely be given over to men and machines this year. With the now internationally recognized […]
For the dogs
Commentary Frank Turner is a 69-year-old musher from Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada with a new idea – a radical new idea – to make life better for the dogs in Alaska’s two […]
Fish war on?
After the smallest Kenai River dipnet catch in eight years, there are hints that the little people of Alaska’s urban core might at last be arriving at the realization that they are […]
Of moose and men
If a moose dies in the center of Alaska’s urban heartland…. Well, suffice to say, it’s not the same as if one of the big ungulates wanders into the Yukon River village […]
Iditarod frets snow
With 14 inches of snow blanketing the Iditarod Trail at Puntilla Lake on the south side of the Alaska Range and 6- to 8-inches on the ground at Rohn on the north […]
