Commentary Updated: This story was updated on Feb. 14 to include a 2007 dog death in the team of then rookie Quest musher Brent Sass. For the second year in a row, Eureka’s […]
Whose fault is it?
Cue the debate
Alaska Sen. Cathy Giessel, a conservatively fiscal Anchorage Republican, has introduced legislation to up the fee on ice-gripping, motor-vehicle tire studs from $5 to $75 in the 49th state, thus fueling the […]
Abbie-normal AK
Just when it looked like the old normal was returning to the far north after a couple of winters that left Alaskans wondering if serious winter warming was the new normal, […]
Fish war on?
After the smallest Kenai River dipnet catch in eight years, there are hints that the little people of Alaska’s urban core might at last be arriving at the realization that they are […]
Last Great Race
Tough Iditarod Trail
deemed “unsafe”
Glacier dams Knik
A lobe of the Knik Glacier has cut off the flow of the river of the same name near Palmer, Alaska, leaving some recent visitors to the remote headwaters wondering if a […]
Ethiconomics
Ode to Abbie Hoffman’s counter-culture best seller: “Steal This Book.”
Beat the ADN
The paywall has now gone up at Alaska’s largest online news site. You can pay to gain access, or you can be a good American capitalist and use the tools available […]
Of moose and men
If a moose dies in the center of Alaska’s urban heartland…. Well, suffice to say, it’s not the same as if one of the big ungulates wanders into the Yukon River village […]
Credibility problems
Update two: It’s complicated. The moose was injured. It was later shot not once, but twice to end its suffering. It wasn’t hit by a car as the charity that butchered it […]
