Having served only 74 days for running over an Anchorage cyclist and leaving him to die, 19-year-old Alexandra Ellis quietly left an Alaska jail more than a month ago, according to the […]
Cyclist’s killer out of jail
Unresolved grief
Sometimes late at night the thoughts of Ila Griepentrog wrestling with the pain of loss come creeping out of the darkness. When the first draft of this story was written months ago, […]
Kenai fish fight
After Kenai River personal use dipnetters struggled through an often slow July trying to catch their winter supply of sockeye salmon, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game refused to grant them […]
The hardest loss
After more than a week of futile search involving hundreds of people, the hunt for missing Texan Brad Broach was winding down in Girdwood on Sunday. Alaska State Troopers spokesman Tim DeSpain […]
New boom just like old boom?
Thirty-six years ago, the late Joe McGinnis authored a best-selling book about Alaska titled “Going to Extremes.” It went to extremes. Widely popular outside the 49th state, it was not so popular […]
APD fearing “ambush”
Anchorage Police are investigating attempts to “ambush” law enforcement officers in Alaska’s largest city. But what exactly this means cannot be determined because police refuse to say what happened. “I apologize for […]
Bear killed, man shot
Everything happened so fast when a grizzly bear attacked in the thick brush along Alaska’s Humpy Creek at the end of July that Kim Woodman found himself acting purely on adrenaline and […]
Hiker gone lost
Once more a massive search is underway for a man gone missing for days on a known wilderness trail not far from Alaska’s largest city. Texan Bradford Broach has not been seen […]
Whale attacks in AK
Bear attacks. Moose attacks. And now a whale attack. What a summer in Alaska.
Money, money, money….
Isn’t it about time Alaskans give Penny and the late Ron Zobel the recognition they deserve for altering history in a way no one could have guessed 30 years ago. Largely due […]
