Alaska moose hunter John Sturgeon took on the National Park Service in federal court over access to the Nation River and won. His winnings should be enough to buy a decent backpack. […]
The great AK tax fantasy

Joe Panacea lives in Texas, or is it Oklahoma? He flies to Alaska once a month, or is it every two weeks? He (or is it a she) pockets paychecks worth $100,000 […]
Iditarod musher facing domestic violence charges
© 2016 craigmedred.news All Rights Reserved A little over a month ago, 24-year-old Travis Beals from Seward happily rode into Nome behind a team of six dogs to claim his second top-20 […]
Iditarod musher faces domestic violence charges

© 2016 craigmedred.news All Rights Reserved A little over a month ago, 24-year-old Travis Beals from Seward happily rode into Nome behind a team of six dogs to claim his second top-20 […]
When journalists make nice, lessons get lost

For want of a shovel, Alaskan Jenny Neyman — writer, editor and enterprising publisher behind the now sorely missed Redoubt Reporter newspaper — and friend Chris Hanna almost died entombed in snow […]
Fall off cliff injured Alaska bear attack victim

The University of Alaska Southeast mountaineering instructor attacked by a bear this week might have suffered the worst of his injuries when the animal knocked him off a cliff. Forest Wagner is […]
When AK bears attack

When a dog bites a man, as a Pulitzer Prize winner observed more than 100 years ago, it is not news. On average, almost 120,000 children between the ages of one and […]
Two bear attacks in days, second victim led UA class
UPDATED — The problems for University of Alaska outdoor programs continue. Less than three weeks after an avalanche in the Alaska Range caught all of the instructors and students in a University […]
Two bear attacks within days, second victim from UA class

UPDATED — The problems for University of Alaska outdoor programs continue. Less than three weeks after an avalanche in the Alaska Range caught all of the instructors and students in a University […]
Kenai subsistence challenged

A federal agency wants to end a tiny subsistence, gillnet salmon fishery in the Kenai River for almost the exact same reason — bycatch — that more than 43,000 Alaskans in […]