Hiker Nephi Soper joined the many gone missing in the Alaska wild on Wednesday. Hopes of finding the 26-year-old specialist in the Alaska National Guard had been dimming with the passing of […]
The search for Nephi ends
The belugas in the Arctic ice
For years now, the white whales of the Beaufort Sea have been making a journey hundreds of miles north from Prudhoe Bay into the Arctic ice off Prince Patrick Island, the westernmost […]
No sign of Nephi yet
A third-day of searching for a hiker gone missing in the Front Range of the Chugach Mountains within sight of Alaska’s largest city appears to have ended with no sign of Nephi […]
Gone missing in Alaska
Dangerous gale-force winds drove rain and snow across the wilderness of the Chugach Mountains at Anchorage’s back door on Sunday as authorities tried their best to press a search for a member […]
A beautifully brutal race
FAIRBANKS — Is it possible a truly nice guy can win the human-powered Iditarod Trail Invitational — the hardest and one of the most potentially dangerous races in the triumvirate of beautifully […]
Bear charges Homer hiker
The grizzly bear that three times charged Homer resident Carlos Lozano this week before being driven off with bear spray really shouldn’t have come as a big surprise, but it did as […]
Out of the land time forgot
FAIRBANKS — A thousand miles after his adventure began, the outlaw cyclist Jeff Oatley pedaled out of the vast, white, nothingness of the upper Yukon River valley into Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada […]
The new and truly “Iceland”
Raindrops were sprinkling Alaska’s largest city again Thursday, and suddenly the year-old climate-change speculation about Anchorage transforming into “a less sunny version of Seattle” wasn’t so funny.
If you’re going to Canada: Do not ride your bike
The United States and Canada once shared one of the friendliest borders in the world. No more, it would seem.
Attacked by a bear? It may be your fault
Wild animals still rarely prey on humans, but assaults by big-toothed, long-clawed critters are on the upswing in the developed world and if you are attacked odds are near 50-50 that you […]
