Commentary The Talkeetna Bachelor Society auction got raucous and a little raunchy over the weekend on the way to raising more than $23,000 for its Fund for Women and Children in Crisis. The […]
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All ahead stop
An Alaska Department of Fish and Game plan to increase the productivity of Chinook salmon by killing more fish before they can get into the Copper River has been […]
Bombed
In Alaska, when it rains, it snows almost always somewhere. If you love snow, all you need to do is go north far enough, climb high enough, get close enough to […]
Wet Christmas
Just when Alaska’s largest city was looking all White Christmas, a powerful North Pacific storm slammed into the urban underbelly of the state to start the month of December off with unseasonably […]
Own history
Some of the assets of the bankrupt and now-gone Alaska Dispatch News – which once claimed it had no assets – are up for sale. From 5 until 7 p.m. today and […]
Idiocracy
Commentary Sometimes, if you have spent your life in journalism, it is hard to look at some of what passes for reportage these days without being forced to ponder whether a once-valued […]
Cold kills
Update: This story has been updated to reflect Keith Stephens’ condition. A Willow man is in a coma in a hospital in Alaska’s largest city after apparently slipping on snow-covered and icy […]
Bombogenesis
Dutch Harbor, Alaska – bombed by the Japanese Navy during World War Two – was bombed again Sunday, but this time it was Mother Nature delivering the blow. A huge, low-pressure weather […]
Arctic oil ‘boued
Once more there is talk of oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), and once more there is worry of a threat to the Porcupine caribou herd which calves in […]
Sabotage!
Accused Iditarod dog-doper Dallas Seavey isn’t the only one claiming sabotage. Colombian cyclist Robinson Lopez, the winner of that country’s U-23 national championship, this week said he was tricked […]
