Hang onto your muskrat-skin hats Alaska. The word from the web today is that Lady Gaga is about to move to the cold, dark heart of the north. KM8News.com rattled the tubes […]
Wink-wink, Fairbanks
Halibut Cove crash photos
The Homer News, a feisty small-town newspaper in the Alaska community at the end of the Kenai Peninsula, has obtained moment-of-impact photos of the Fourth-of-July holiday airplane crash involving Alaska media-lebrity Alice […]
Denali bear hunt ongoing
As the hunt continues for a grizzly bear that last week bit a hiker in Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve, National Park Service officials are discovering a dichotomy familiar to most […]
Deceptively dangerous
A July Fourth hike to the top of Flattop Mountain to watch Anchorage fireworks ended with a young man from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in a helicopter on his way to a local […]
Rogoff rescuer identified
Anchorage’s Janine Amon is being credited with pulling shaken Alaska media-lebrity Alice Rogoff from the chill waters of Halibut Cove after Rogoff crashed her plane there on the eve of the Fourth […]
Rogoff crash update
Update: The report of hitting an eagle appears to be untrue. Rogoff attorney Brent Cole has issued a statement saying Rogoff crashed after an aborted landing. The National Transportation Safety Board, which […]
Alice Rogoff crashes plane
Big Fourth of July holiday excitement came early to the tiny community of Halibut Cove on the tip of Alaska Kenai Peninsula when Alice Rogoff – the owner of Alaska’s largest newspaper, […]
AK’s (un) Affordable Care Act
The sometimes not-so Affordable Care Act is focusing national attention on Alaska, the once oil-rich state facing no end of problems due to the global slump in oil prices. Writing in “The […]
Denali bear death sentence
A young Denali Park grizzly bear that decided people are to play with has been handed a death sentence. Officials at the 6-million-acre wilderness park in the heart of the 49th state […]
The AK gas pipeline obsession
Awash in can-do enthusiasm fueled by construction of the 800-mile-long, crude-oil-hauling Trans-Alaska Pipeline System almost 40 years ago, oil producers on the 49th state’s North Slope made a good-faith, never-fulfilled offer to […]
