A 22-year-old University of Alaska Fairbanks student who stopped his car along the George Parks Highway to help a snowmobiler with problems is dead as a result of one of the 49th […]
Killer roads
Idiocracy
Commentary Sometimes, if you have spent your life in journalism, it is hard to look at some of what passes for reportage these days without being forced to ponder whether a once-valued […]
Cold kills
Update: This story has been updated to reflect Keith Stephens’ condition. A Willow man is in a coma in a hospital in Alaska’s largest city after apparently slipping on snow-covered and icy […]
Bombogenesis
Dutch Harbor, Alaska – bombed by the Japanese Navy during World War Two – was bombed again Sunday, but this time it was Mother Nature delivering the blow. A huge, low-pressure weather […]
Arctic oil ‘boued
Once more there is talk of oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), and once more there is worry of a threat to the Porcupine caribou herd which calves in […]
Avalanche death
A highly experienced and well-known Anchorage skier has been identified by Alaska State Troopers as the man killed in a pre-Thanksgiving Day avalanche about 60 miles north of the state’s largest city. […]
Sabotage!
Accused Iditarod dog-doper Dallas Seavey isn’t the only one claiming sabotage. Colombian cyclist Robinson Lopez, the winner of that country’s U-23 national championship, this week said he was tricked […]
Seaveys had abuse
Despite earlier claims that everything was hunky-dory this fall at the Willow kennel of Dallas Seavey, a four-time champion of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, it has now emerged […]
All-ahead full
A Walker administration request to fast-track environmental studies on an 800-mile gas pipeline from Alaska’s North Slope to tidewater at Cook Inlet could backfire and spawn national opposition that slows the project, […]
Nothing news
Commentary Dexter is safe, and it’s time for someone to ask the obvious: “What the hell just happened here? Was this news or a distraction from news?” Dexter, in case you […]
