About a week before Christmas, 26-year-old Mike Watkins took off on a snowmachine adventure in the foothills of the Alaska Range mountains about 100 miles north of the state’s largest city. He […]
To build a fire
Tangled up in news
The carcass of the now dead Alaska Dispatch News was dragged back into federal Bankruptcy Court Thursday with the wolves of the law sniffing still edible meat on the bones of what […]
Wild divide
Former Alaska Gov. Tony Knowles this week led an exodus from the National Park Service advisory board, and some Alaskans were celebrating. Welcome to the 21st Century of divisiveness on all fronts.
Idit-a-doping
News analysis To hear Iditarod dog mushers of today tell it, nobody ever doped a dog in Alaska. Just ask them. They’ll give you an earful. No one ever culled a dog […]
MatSu wants gas
By Larry Persily Special to craigmedred.news The Matanuska-Susitna Borough is alleging the Alaska LNG project and federal regulators may have violated the National Environmental Policy Act and the federal Clean Water Act […]
Something’s missing
Halfway through the winter season, Southwestern Alaska finds itself confronting a strange, new world. The lower Kuskokwim River remains unfrozen. December felt like an average November, maybe October. And the temperature on Sunday […]
Together apart
Commentary Homo sapiens male and female are members of a singular species separated by gender. Science is only beginning to find out how separated. Scientists in Sweden have now documented a big […]
New norm
Rain was falling in the Alaska ski-resort community of Girdwood on Friday afternoon, and the National Weather Service was predicting it would reach the state’s largest city by the weekend. After […]
Love lost
Dusty has been gone a week now and with every passing day Jack Forshee worries more. In his worst moments, the 62-year-old man fears that one of his new neighbors in Bear […]
Saboteurs and villains
Two months have passed since four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champ Seavey hired a high-power, San Francisco crisis-management firm to probe who doped his dog team in Nome last year, […]
