News analysis Do the dominate mushers in Alaska’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race know more about the 1,000-mile, ultramarathon’s first, high-profile, sled-dog doping case than has been publicly revealed? The question has […]
Urine science
Idit-a-dope
The small and insular world of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race was exploding Wednesday amid suggestions a saboteur might have been stalking the Nome finish line this March. There was […]
Fix the news
Commentary If you’re reading this and you have a social media account of some sort, you hold the power to change the news. So if you think journalism is broken […]
High on Iditarod
Update: This story has been updated with Iditarod doping protocols. Someone among the top-20 finishers in this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race found a way to perk their dogs […]
Seavey’s problem
This is story has been updated Three-time and defending Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion Mitch Seavey of Sterling appears to have used a prohibited substance on his dogs for […]
Bear spray works
No bears were in evidence on Saturday when Mark Price from Seward returned to the scene of his frightening, early October grizzly encounter, and this time he had the comfort of a […]
Arctic Wow!
The strange and tangled tale of the Alaska Dispatch News, the 49th state’s largest news organization, just keeps getting stranger. As the Binkley family of Fairbanks was buying the newspaper and the website […]
Last Great Mess
When the guilty go unnamed, everyone becomes guilty, and so it is the mushers in Alaska’s biggest sporting event have become a bunch of dopers. Thank the Iditarod Trail Committee, which this […]
Alaska divided
From his home in rainy Ketchikan near the southern end of the Alaska Panhandle, former Alaska Commissioner of Public Safety Dick Burton watches the slow but steady tribalization of the 49th […]
Armed America
Most Alaskans live in neighborhoods full of guns. Should they be afraid?
