The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which publicly proclaims itself to be “All About the Dogs,” has quietly penalized two top female mushers for being all about the dogs. One of […]
Dog care victims
Winners all
Once again Alaskans dominated the biggest, annual sporting competition conducted on the historic Iditarod Trail despite being outnumbered about two to one by those coming from around the world to test themselves […]
Never too old
Former Olympic cyclist Lindsey Gauld from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada was near 90 miles north on the Iditarod Trail at Skwentna today trying to set a record to be admired in these days […]
Radical pandemic shifts
Even as Covid-19-infection rates skyrocket, Iceland – the North Atlantic island nation that once believed it could test and isolate to ensure the safety of its citizens until the Covid-19 causing SARS-CoV-2 […]
Nature’s loss
The massive, free-range, salmon-farming operation run by commercial fishermen in Alaska’s Prince William Sound appears to be undermining the natural spawning success of pink salmon there, according to a peer-reviewed study published […]
Not fit to print
Journalists in Alaska’s largest city can now thank Nome’s Nate Perkins for doing their job for them. He was the first to identify 23-year-old Tyler Haroldson as the pilot who crashed his […]
Face of adventure
Battered, brutalized and in the end beaten by the cold and wind of Alaska’s Bering Sea coast, one of the toughest men ever to trod the Iditarod Trail was on a plane back […]
Another weak year
The forecast is out for the return of sockeye salmon to Alaska’s Upper Cook Inlet (UCI), and it’s looking like a replay of recent mediocre years. The Alaska Department of Fish and […]
Searching for answers
Nudged into action by near unbelievable early findings of privately funded probes into the secret lives of Pacific salmon, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced it is this […]
Still waiting
Alaskans curious as to the fate of the first and only member of the state Board of Fisheries to stand accused of ripping off the Alaska Permanent Fund will have to wait […]
