Two women made famous the ‘Last Great Race’ Part II of III Any history of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Races is most accurately recorded in the years BR and AR – […]
Iditarod rising
Changing times
A withering Iditarod faces an unknown future Part one of a series Forty years ago, a young Athabascan dog driver named Howard Albert from the village of Ruby on the Yukon River […]
Colder warming
Alaska’s largest city ended the year 2022 tracking decades-old climate predictions that Anchorage would become more like Juneau and Juneau more like Seattle. The National Weather Service reported the year just […]
Return to yesteryear
The snow was falling right on schedule for the 1980s in Alaska’s largest city on Monday. Back then my hunting logs invariably marked Oct. 10 as the day the waterfowl season entered […]
Dangerous routes
Almost a month has passed since 13-year-old Zakkary Mann was rundown on Brayton Drive, a specifically designated “bike route” in Alaska’s largest city, and still his mother, Shana, is no closer to […]
Bear dance?
A bizarre video has emerged of what has been described as a Sunday “bear attack” along the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail in Anchorage. The shaky film taken by another walker on the […]
Bear attack
Anchorage witnessed its first bear attack on Sunday, but details are sketchy. Update: The Anchorage Police Department has yet to provide any details on what it described as a “bear attack” […]
A sad end
Thirty-year-old, U.S. Army paratrooper Seth Michael Plant survived a tour of duty in the war zone that was Afghanistan only to die in the far north on Tuesday when he stepped on […]
And they’re off
Alaska’s biggest reality show staged its first episode on the streets and trails of the state’s largest city as the snow fell heavy on Saturday. The ceremonial start of the Iditarod Trail […]
Springtime in Alaska
The temperature in Alaska’s largest city officially hit 42 degrees – four degrees shy of a record – on Tuesday as the seemingly “new normal” of the 2010s – abandoned in 2021 […]
