SPENCER GLACIER – The April sun was bright in the Placer River valley east of Alaska’s largest city on Tuesday making the air feel warmer and the wilderness friendlier than the 27-degree […]
Secret season
Real(ity) tales
If a reality TV star’s latest version of events is to be believed, the media tale of former President Barak Obama eating a bear-killed salmon while on his 2015 global-warming tour of […]
The killer bus
All deaths in the Alaska wild are not the same. When someone goes looking for danger and ends up dead, that’s on him or her. But when people are tempted into tragedy […]
Future beer
Twenty-seven years ago this March, the New York Times declared the Alaska Delta barley project, the dream of the late and revered Gov. Jay Hammond and policy sidekick Bob Palmer, a giant […]
Warming’s upside
Leave it to those pesky Russians to go looking for the bright side of climate change. Russian scientists studying global warming are now saying it could help agriculture to boom […]
Fat-bike danger zone
AT THE HEAD OF TURNAGAIN ARM, ALASKA – Call it the “Invasion of the Fat Bikes,” the new recreational madness that has doubled the trouble for the Alaska Railroad here along the […]
Free snow for some
Somebody got snowed. That free and now famous Alaska Railroad snow shipped from Fairbanks to Anchorage for the start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race only to go unused? There’s a […]
