Winds that gusted to near 100 mph in the Kenai Mountains south of Anchorage on Thursday had died down by this morning and heavy snows were easing, but the Chugach National Forest […]
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Iditarod dangers
Back home in Minnesota now with the memory of a near-death experience along the Iditarod Trail unlikely to fade for a long, long time, Scott Hoberg finds himself a man deeply […]
The Eklutna Battery
If Alaska was Switzerland, the natural equivalent of a giant, rechargeable battery able to provide renewable power for the state’s largest city forever would likely be up and running in the Chugach Mountains […]
Last Great Mess II
Almost 11 months after the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race received a letter reporting on doping in the 2017 version of the 1,000-mile run to Nome, race organisers finally released the unabridged document […]
Iditarod explodes
This story has been updated and continues to develop Charges of blackmail, an Alaska media cover-up gone bust and previously unreported doping ripped into the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday […]
Everywhere dope
Doping news was flooding the international world of sports on Monday as the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race disappeared into the wild beauty of the Alaska Range and gained some distance […]
Who’s your doc?
A year-long investigation by the website MedPage Today and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel into how well states police physicians is out, and Alaska didn’t score well. “States of Disgrace: A Flawed System […]
No-gun REI
Alaska’s biggest outdoor co-op pushes for gun control
The lone rouleur
The winds were starting in the high country when fat-tired cyclist Neil Beltchenko left the cluster of log buildings that is The Perrins Rainy Pass Lodge on the shore of Puntilla Lake […]
A tale of trouble
Never before has the 49th state’s biggest sporting stumbled toward its early March start surrounded by so much controversy and disarray. With CBS Sports nationally headlining that “Alaska’s Iditarod sled dog […]
