A week after it was first reported the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race had allowed musher Travis Beals to compete while awaiting trail on domestic-violence charges, Alaska’s signature sporting event took a […]
Second-rate journalism
These are embarrassing days to be an Alaska journalist. On Tuesday, the Washington Post matter of factly reported that “in mid-October police questioned (Johnny) Manziel after witnesses saw the (Cleveland Browns) quarterback […]
Winning, but still losing
Alaska moose hunter John Sturgeon took on the National Park Service in federal court over access to the Nation River and won. His winnings should be enough to buy a decent backpack. […]
The great AK tax fantasy
Joe Panacea lives in Texas, or is it Oklahoma? He flies to Alaska once a month, or is it every two weeks? He (or is it a she) pockets paychecks worth $100,000 […]
Iditarod musher facing domestic violence charges
© 2016 craigmedred.news All Rights Reserved A little over a month ago, 24-year-old Travis Beals from Seward happily rode into Nome behind a team of six dogs to claim his second top-20 […]
Iditarod musher faces domestic violence charges
© 2016 craigmedred.news All Rights Reserved A little over a month ago, 24-year-old Travis Beals from Seward happily rode into Nome behind a team of six dogs to claim his second top-20 […]
When journalists make nice, lessons get lost
For want of a shovel, Alaskan Jenny Neyman — writer, editor and enterprising publisher behind the now sorely missed Redoubt Reporter newspaper — and friend Chris Hanna almost died entombed in snow […]
Fall off cliff injured Alaska bear attack victim
The University of Alaska Southeast mountaineering instructor attacked by a bear this week might have suffered the worst of his injuries when the animal knocked him off a cliff. Forest Wagner is […]
When AK bears attack
When a dog bites a man, as a Pulitzer Prize winner observed more than 100 years ago, it is not news. On average, almost 120,000 children between the ages of one and […]
Two bear attacks in days, second victim led UA class
UPDATED — The problems for University of Alaska outdoor programs continue. Less than three weeks after an avalanche in the Alaska Range caught all of the instructors and students in a University […]
