The frozen feet of an unnamed Italian have the deadly legacy of writer John Krakauer once more back in the news. The Italian was one of five lucky to be rescued from […]
Trouble magnet
The hunters
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game was on Monday actively moving to quash any rumors of favoritism in the award of a grizzly bear hunting permit to Donald Trump Jr., the […]
Evolution
Local journalism as most Americans have known it for most of their lives is on its death bed. Its epitaph may have been written best by an anonymous, one-time “senior business writer” […]
Who to believe?
Alaska winter 2020 is either icier than in a long time, or so short on ice the census takers can’t drive the ice roads. Public radio will tell you both. The latest […]
Yukon ordeal
No one in America today knows better than Tim Hewitt the meaning of the legendary Archdeacon Hudson Stuck’s more than 100-year-old observation that “the greatest gift” one man can bestow on another […]
The snow trap
A thousand feet above Alaska’s largest city, the winds were Wednesday night building toward hurricane force for the second time in 48 hours. The National Weather Service was forecasting overnight gusts to […]
On thin ice
Twenty-three-year-old Alaska newcomer Nate Newland challenged the glacier gods on Sunday by venturing inside the westward migrating ice at the head of the Knik River; luckily he lived to tell about the […]
Seachange
News analysis A significant shift in fisheries management aimed at putting more salmon in Cook Inlet streams and rivers surrounding Alaska’s urban core is coming, and commercial fishermen have been […]
Safely unknown
Climate change began poisoning the people of the Norwegian Arctic with dangerous chemicals some 3,800 to 6,300 years ago scientists have concluded after digging around in the garbage pits of that country’s […]
A historic bankruptcy
Finally bowing to what seemed inevitable for so long, the national newspaper chain that for more than two decades owned Alaska’s largest and most influential news organization has announced its plan to […]
