UPDATED The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has lost its most benevolent fan, Anchorage Chrysler Dodge Jeep president Rod Udd. He was 78 years old and had been struggling with health issues […]
Idita-Rod passes
An Alaska life
In the photo posted by KTOO.org, a smiling “River Wind,” aka David Cornberg, is standing on a sandbar along the Yukon River with a short-barreled shotgun slung over his left shoulder, but […]
Danger mountains
A foot to three feet of new snow was blanketing Alaska’s Kenai, Chugach and Talkeetna mountains Saturday night, and it had bonded to almost nothing. That had avalanche dangers growing everywhere from […]
Death in Alaska
UPDATE: Travis’s body was recovered by a team of volunteers from Huslia Search and Rescue late Friday. They also reported that the blanket on which Travis had appeared to be resting […]
Real Alaska rising
The temperature was 5 degrees high in the Chugach Mountains above Alaska’s largest city on Sunday night and a nasty north wind lashed the land with ice-crystals of snow. In a snowy […]
Gender wars
Alaska Business Monthly editor Susan Harrington thought the edge had gone off the country’s gender war until the magazine ran a cover with a man mimicking the iconic Rosie the Riveter poster […]
Data shoot-em-up
Oh, the fun reporters can have with data. The 2015 numbers on firearms fatalities are in, and KTUU.com has a story online titled “Gun Deaths” by new data reporter Sidney Sullivan fresh out of the […]
The Blob is dead
“The Blob,” a gigantic and infamous pool of hot water in the Gulf of Alaska once declared dead only to rise again, looks to have finally met its end. “There’s still slight […]
Icy hot 2016
Residents of Alaska’s largest city shivered their way to the end of the warmest year on record to put the perfect underline beneath the vagaries of weather in the Far North. […]
Killer roads
Another pedestrian has been hit and killed in the dark on an Alaska roadway, bringing to four the number of people to die in this manner in the last six weeks. […]
