Mother Nature delivered a classic, Bing Crosby-like “White Christmas” to winter sports fans living in Alaska’s urban core, but it came with a decidedly dark underbelly. About a month behind what […]
Dangerous snow
“Sled dogs” cleared
More bad news for Alaska dog mushers trying to refute accusations of abuse suggested by the as-yet little seen documentary “Sled Dogs.” They had backed Canadian sled-dog businesses complaining to the […]
Fish fight end?
The North Pacific Fisheries Council has taken an unprecedented step to try to increase the value of halibut to the Alaska economy by allowing a yet-to-be-created, charter-boat fishing entity to buy […]
One stinky story
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has decided 70 fat-tire cyclists and runners set to hit the Iditarod Trail in February pose a risk to the outhouse outside the iconic, one-room Rohn […]
Over but not done
A Monday decision by 27-year-old Arnold Demoski to plead guilty to charges related to harassing musher Aily Zirkle during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and running down the team […]
Iditarod dog death
After months of wrangling between a Fairbanks attorney and Alaska prosecutors, a Nulato man who was at the controls of a snowmachine that ran into and killed a dog in the Iditarod […]
American justice
After years of putting up with the incessant barking of a neighbor’s dog, 69-year-old Jin Bong So of Anchorage finally couldn’t take it anymore and decided to do something about it. […]
The new landlord
Speculation was running rife and all over the place on Wednesday as the word came that President-elect Donald S. Trump, Alaska’s biggest landowner, had finally named a property manager. Montana Rep. […]
Lone wolf survivor
A white wolf that isn’t supposed to be alive has finally made the news in Alaska’s largest city. KTUU.com on Friday reported the wolf in Anchorage after television station viewer LeRoy Polk […]
Sled Dogs = Blackfish
Sea World Entertainment, the mother company for the popular marine parks of the same name across the southern tier of the United State, this week announced the layoff of more than 320 […]
