UPDATE: This story was edited on Apri 7, 2017 to reflect exact voter turnout numbers in South Anchorage Iraq war veteran Albert Fogle’s foray into Alaska politics ended in narrow defeat, but […]
Identity politics
Fat-bike danger zone
AT THE HEAD OF TURNAGAIN ARM, ALASKA – Call it the “Invasion of the Fat Bikes,” the new recreational madness that has doubled the trouble for the Alaska Railroad here along the […]
Deadly roof designs
UPDATE: The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner late on Monday reported that the child had died. The report came with snow again falling in parts of Alaska’s largest city. It was mixed with rain […]
Just chillin’
Commentary The northern end of Alaska’s Cook Inlet remained thick with ice on Saturday as the 49th state marched into a chill, snowy April that was a white world away from a […]
China’s AK salmon
The Juneau-based Sealaska Corporation looks to be expanding its move back into the Alaska fishing business in a big way via Seattle and China. Seafood Source.com on Friday was reporting the regional […]
Iditarod crossroads
Commentary Before the last of the ice melts from frozen Fairbanks, Alaska, and the 2017 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race fully disappears into the ground blizzard of history, it might be a […]
Little Ice Age
Fresh off several winters of global warming, some in Alaska’s largest city were Wednesday wondering if the climate hadn’t flipped into some sort of new Ice Age. As if to put […]
Alaska’s death valley
Four times in the past 10 months, Alaska State Troopers have opened fire to defend themselves or protect others from residents of the Matanuska-Valley. The shootings have left three dead and one […]
More snow, oh boy!
As March shivered toward April in America’s far north with the roads coated in ice and the moose dying of starvation, the National Weather Service was warning residents of Alaska’s largest city […]
A richer Iditarod
The rumored $1 million dollar Iditarod reached Nome earlier this month. No, it wasn’t the dog sled race. It was a Chinese tour, which some along the Iditarod Trail nicknamed the […]
