This story was updated on April 27, 2018 FAIRBANKS – Banned Yukon Quest musher Hugh Neff – seeming to channel the spirit of self-exiled Iditarod musher Dallas Seavey – says he is […]
Mushers #metoo
Missing the game
Fourteen oil-and-gas producing states have joined Indiana in supporting the country’s major oil companies in their effort to fend off a climate change litigation begun by the cities of San Fransisco and […]
Musher suspended
This story has been updated FAIRBANKS – The Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race has sanctioned former champion Hugh Neff, a hard driver and veteran of both that race […]
Gone guy
The whining, can you hear it? The screech and the wail, A man can’t help but fear it; It screams of time to bail From the car-filled Chugach bowl with its ugly, […]
Iditarod loses another
One of the “Flying Anderson” brothers from the days when every Iditarod dog musher of note bore a nickname has reached the end of the trail. Allan “Eep” Anderson of McGrath […]
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 […]
Everyday journalism
If Facebook = journalism = Facebook, why does the world need journalism? This might be the number one issue facing journalism today, but it’s unclear whether it is recognized by all journalism businesses. […]
Unexpected rescue
After a gnarly crossing of the Harding Icefield from near the small town of Seward to the remote eastern edge of Skilak Lake on the Kenai Peninsula last week, about the last […]
Save a life
Alaska “Mushing Mortician,” Scott Janssen, and pathologist friend Jim Lanier are now fully recovered from their near-death experience of March, and the 2018 Alaska Iditarod Trail Sled Dog seems already ancient history. […]
Arctic hot spot
What was once one of the crown jewels of Central Alaska tourism could be making a comeback after more than a decade of idleness and a slow but steady drift toward ghost-town […]
