Austrian hiker Klaus Schweinberger strolled into Nome on Tuesday afternoon to bring to an end the official season of adventure on the Iditarod National Historic Trail. The last to finish the Iditarod […]
Iditarod season is over
Ginormous rain storm coming
All remnants of the winter that really wasn’t in Alaska’s largest city appear ready to be washed away in a climatic blender. Kiss it goodbye you who love this time of year […]
Facebook reports AK rescue
NOTE: This a corrected version of the original story. What if a well-known Nordic skier who once raced for Alaska Pacific University took a serious, bone-breaking fall while skiing a deadly peak […]
Last dog to Nome
The last husky to reach the end of the Iditarod Trail arrived in Nome on Wednesday night, but this one was riding a man-sled instead of pulling a dog sled, and it […]
Play nice, children!
“I disapprove of what you say, and I have a backend algorithm that will fix that!” Voltaire/2016 OK, so Voltaire actually said something ever-so-slightly different, but he might have put it this […]
Moose hunter’s victory
Alaska moose hunter John Sturgeon won a major victory over the National Park Service Tuesday in a lawsuit that could have implications far beyond his use of a hovercraft in the Yukon-Charley […]
Iditarod record earned
You can’t begin to do what Tim Hewitt just did in walking 1,000 miles across the godforsaken, frozen wilderness of Alaska in less than 20 days to set a record in the […]
Overlooked Alaska fishing
What if someone came up with a plan to give dipnetters a sometimes better alternative to the salmon dipnet madness at the mouth of the Kenai River and almost no one seemed […]
Iditarod unbelievable
At the end of the Iditarod Trail in Nome late Friday night, there was no money, no fame, no real glory for 61-year-old Tim Hewitt, only the personal satisfaction in doing […]
Fishy decisions
New Alaska halibut fishing regulations are out, and more than a few anglers in the state’s most populous reason are sure to be considering whether they should buy a boat or get […]
