Updated: June 13, 2016 If ever there was a week to illustrate the potential dangers that lurk on the very edge of civilization’s foothold in Alaska, this was it. Four confirmed dead […]
Alaska: It can kill you
Dead in Denali
UPDATED: 4 p.m.. June 10, 2016 Only 10 to 15 miles south of where the body of posthumously famous adventurer Chris McCandless was found, the National Park Service is reporting the discovery […]
Near deadly bear attack
UPDATED – June 13, 2o16 Alaska bear attacks don’t come any stranger than this: The Anchorage Police Department is saying a seriously injured man who stumbled out of the woods in South […]
What happened to Nephi?
The search for Nephi Soper is over, but as with Chris McCandless before him the mystery of what happened to the 26-year-old might linger forever. Soper’s body was found Sunday morning floating […]
Asking for trouble
Commentary Does any of this sound familiar? “A moose on the rampage attacked two women walking with their dogs, injuring both severely. (The people, not the dogs. Grammar is in trouble […]
Moose on rampage
Don’t panic Anchorage. The moose in the city’s most popular urban park have not declared war on their human neighbors. The Big Wild Life has not spun out of control. What at […]
Catch, release, kill fish
Part 1 of 2 If you believe the science, somewhere around 4.8 million sockeye salmon were likely caught and released in Bristol Bay last year and half them died before spawning. That’s […]
One mistake = death
On a slope where if you fall you die, Czech mountaineer Pavel Michut met his end on Friday. The 45-year-old from the village of Hutisko Solanec fell to his death, the National […]
Dial homicide unlikely
A National Geographic Channel claim that Anchorage’s Cody Roman Dial was the victim of a homicide in Costa Rica stands at this time as unfounded. An official cause of death has yet […]
One for the troops
MONTAGUE ISLAND – Until Thursday morning, the biggest fish U.S. Army PFC Evan Langer had ever hooked was an 18 1/2-inch bass. Then he found himself staring over the stern of […]
