The streams and rivers of Arctic Alaska are slowly but steadily being transformed by a northward advance of beavers into the shrub lands of the tundra, according to a new study by […]
Beavers invade
Talking fish – not
This story has been updated Only a day after outlining a plan for Cook Inlet salmon talks and issuing an administrative order officially sanctioning a fisheries task force that started meeting secretly […]
Untold story
The New York Times this week rolled out a long, long story about NXIVM guru Keith Raniere headlined “The ‘Sex Cult’ That Preached Empowerment.” Alaska kayaker Kristin Snyder who is believed to have […]
Winter lives on
Little could Carlos Lozano know that the uncomfortable process of getting an artificial knee this April might save him a big, snowy headache. Lozano is the heart and soul of the Alaska […]
Still on the hook
Alaska officials are denying they’ve officially cut a deal to let off easy Kami Cabana, the now notorious seine-boat skipper indicted on charges of felony assault with a weapon after a Prince […]
Ice surfer
Winter ice still clogs Alaska’s Kenai River, but there is a definite sign of breakup on the horizon. The phantom Ice Surfer is back.
An Alaska view
Editor’s note: “Sled Dogs,” the movie that generated plenty of controversy in Alaska when it was released in 2016, slipped in and out of Anchorage quietly on Feb. 19. The single showing […]
State of misogyn
The first and to date only woman to win the 1,000-mile, Yukon-Quest International Sled Dog Race, arguably Alaska’s toughest ultramarathon, and a three-time runner-up in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Aliy […]
The fall of Rogoff
The implosion of Alaska’s largest newspaper is old news now, but the story of the rise and fall of Alice Rogoff and her dream to create a media empire in the 49th […]
No honor
Update: This story was updated to include Joar Leifseth Ulsom’s statement that he didn’t dope his dogs or any others. Just when you think things can’t get much worse for the Iditarod […]
