Livengood, Alaska – pronounced lie-ven-good – wasn’t living so good on Thursday. At 9:20 that morning, the temperature was 57 degrees below zero, and sunrise was still about an hour away.
Damn cold AK
Alaska shivering in a deep freeze
Loved to death?
What would you do if bird feeders – not some environmental pollutant – were implicated in the beak deformities suffered by Alaska chickadees, downy woodpeckers, red-breasted nuthatches, common ravens and a number […]
Real Alaska rising
The temperature was 5 degrees high in the Chugach Mountains above Alaska’s largest city on Sunday night and a nasty north wind lashed the land with ice-crystals of snow. In a snowy […]
Gender wars
Alaska Business Monthly editor Susan Harrington thought the edge had gone off the country’s gender war until the magazine ran a cover with a man mimicking the iconic Rosie the Riveter poster […]
Data shoot-em-up
Oh, the fun reporters can have with data. The 2015 numbers on firearms fatalities are in, and KTUU.com has a story online titled “Gun Deaths” by new data reporter Sidney Sullivan fresh out of the […]
A death spiral
Commentary America, we have a problem. The moderator of the great public debate so vital to the functioning of a democracy has allowed itself to be compromised. Yes, we’re talking about […]
Maw off the hook
Outlaw former fishermen Roland Maw shook free from the state of Alaska this week, or at least partially so. Juneau Superior Court Judge Louis Menendez freed the former Board of Fisheries member […]
Dipnet catch disaster
The numbers are in at last, and it turns out Gary Barnes of the Alaska Outdoor Journal had the situation pegged six months ago when he complained to Alaska Commissioner of Fish […]
Alaska deep freeze
What a difference a year makes in the far north. Just as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was releasing a report listing 2016 as the warmest year in Alaska’s 92-year recorded […]