President Barack Obama has a problem, and his newfound friend from last summer — Alaska Gov. Bill Walker — just might have the perfect solution. Imagine a Republican-turned-Independent governor coming to the […]
Perfect place for terrorists
Living the Anomaly
Everyone slipping, sliding and falling around Anchorage thanks to the rain-plagued winter of 2015-16 might have noticed something isn’t quite normal. But don’t worry. This is simply what the National Weather […]
Made in Alaska Fad
Many of the gang of trailblazers who conspired to make fat bikes the fad they are today gather Saturday in Anchorage to discuss how an old idea — a bike with balloon […]
The search for Nephi ends
Hiker Nephi Soper joined the many gone missing in the Alaska wild on Wednesday. Hopes of finding the 26-year-old specialist in the Alaska National Guard had been dimming with the passing of […]
The belugas in the Arctic ice
For years now, the white whales of the Beaufort Sea have been making a journey hundreds of miles north from Prudhoe Bay into the Arctic ice off Prince Patrick Island, the westernmost […]
No sign of Nephi yet
A third-day of searching for a hiker gone missing in the Front Range of the Chugach Mountains within sight of Alaska’s largest city appears to have ended with no sign of Nephi […]
Gone missing in Alaska
Dangerous gale-force winds drove rain and snow across the wilderness of the Chugach Mountains at Anchorage’s back door on Sunday as authorities tried their best to press a search for a member […]
A beautifully brutal race
FAIRBANKS — Is it possible a truly nice guy can win the human-powered Iditarod Trail Invitational — the hardest and one of the most potentially dangerous races in the triumvirate of beautifully […]
Bear charges Homer hiker
The grizzly bear that three times charged Homer resident Carlos Lozano this week before being driven off with bear spray really shouldn’t have come as a big surprise, but it did as […]
Out of the land time forgot
FAIRBANKS — A thousand miles after his adventure began, the outlaw cyclist Jeff Oatley pedaled out of the vast, white, nothingness of the upper Yukon River valley into Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada […]
