With rain, wind and temperatures pushing into the 40s Thursday in the wake of a month of heavy snowfall, avalanche experts were warning Alaskans about how dangerous the weather can make it […]
Don’t go outside!
Idita-Rod passes
UPDATED The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has lost its most benevolent fan, Anchorage Chrysler Dodge Jeep president Rod Udd. He was 78 years old and had been struggling with health issues […]
Arctic Cat sold
Where goes one of the winningest brands in the history of Alaska’s 2,000-mile Iron Dog snowmachine race now that Arctic Cat has been sold to defense contractor Textron? Textron is a big-time […]
An Alaska life
In the photo posted by KTOO.org, a smiling “River Wind,” aka David Cornberg, is standing on a sandbar along the Yukon River with a short-barreled shotgun slung over his left shoulder, but […]
Danger mountains
A foot to three feet of new snow was blanketing Alaska’s Kenai, Chugach and Talkeetna mountains Saturday night, and it had bonded to almost nothing. That had avalanche dangers growing everywhere from […]
Death in Alaska
UPDATE: Travis’s body was recovered by a team of volunteers from Huslia Search and Rescue late Friday. They also reported that the blanket on which Travis had appeared to be resting […]
Loved to death?
What would you do if bird feeders – not some environmental pollutant – were implicated in the beak deformities suffered by Alaska chickadees, downy woodpeckers, red-breasted nuthatches, common ravens and a number […]
Dipnet catch disaster
The numbers are in at last, and it turns out Gary Barnes of the Alaska Outdoor Journal had the situation pegged six months ago when he complained to Alaska Commissioner of Fish […]
Rohn outhouse open
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s proposed lockdown on the lone outhouse in the remote, Alaska Range outpost of Rohn has been lifted, meaning fat-tired cyclists and ultra-runners headed north in the […]
Killer roads
Another pedestrian has been hit and killed in the dark on an Alaska roadway, bringing to four the number of people to die in this manner in the last six weeks. […]
