Alaska’s “Last Great Race” – the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race – is on the verge of losing the support of both its competitors and sponsors and could collapse, a consultant to […]
Iditarod in danger
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 […]
Fuzzy math
News analysis Alaska’s largest city was all a twitter on Saturday because a Delaware company operating a website called 24/7 Wall St. out of New York proclaimed Alaska the most dangerous state […]
Old north
Commentary The sorry state of vision plaguing Alaska’s aging, political elite can today be condensed to one word: North. North is the region to which the Midwest is trying to rebrand […]
One success
Alaska, a state mired in recession, got a bit of good news on Friday – it’s home to one at least business proving hugely successful in the cold, snowy north. The […]
Don’t worry….
At 12:39 a.m. on the night of the great Alaska tsunami that wasn’t, the Anchorage Office of Emergency Management sent out an email of a “tsunami warning until 01:35 a.m.” It was fake […]
Geographic thievery
Commentary With Super Bowl LII headed for Minneapolis in February, cold is the new hot, or so Minnesotans would like you to believe. Having already stolen the fat bike from Alaska, the […]
Citizen news
For a brief time in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, the best reporter in Alaska was a 48-year-old man with no training in journalism, no connection to any news organization, and […]
Devolution
Commentary On the day the Women’s March hit Alaska, a 49th-state journalist popped a photo of demonstrators up on Instagram with this description: “We hate Donald Trump up North too.” In the […]
Cold a comin’
A month behind schedule, winter is finally forcing its way into a coastal Alaska coated in frozen rain. Temperatures on the west side of the Kenai Peninsula and in the Anchorage metropolitan […]
