“Copper” the red squirrel has been given a probable death sentence, though his friends at the Anchorage Police Department don’t seem to get it, and the media, as the lyrics of Bob Dylan […]
Danger by oversight
Idit-a-bike back
Over the course of three months this year, German Nina Gässler learned about the worst of Alaska, pedaled a fat-tired bike across some of the prettiest of Alaska, and eventually experienced the best […]
Be afraid
A new study of cyclists riding the bike paths and streets of London found almost three out of four regularly worry motorists are out to kill them. One can […]
Gone guy
The whining, can you hear it? The screech and the wail, A man can’t help but fear it; It screams of time to bail From the car-filled Chugach bowl with its ugly, […]
Cold a comin’
A month behind schedule, winter is finally forcing its way into a coastal Alaska coated in frozen rain. Temperatures on the west side of the Kenai Peninsula and in the Anchorage metropolitan […]
Back to court
National Park Service nemesis John Sturgeon now uses a perfectly legal airboat to hunt the remote and wild Nation River near the Canadian border in Eastern Alaska, but his fight with the […]
Killer roads
A 22-year-old University of Alaska Fairbanks student who stopped his car along the George Parks Highway to help a snowmobiler with problems is dead as a result of one of the 49th […]
Shifting seasons
November brought winter like weather to coastal Alaska at last, ending another October of the new-normal. The National Weather Service in Anchorage reported up to four inches of snow turning in places […]
100-foot waves
The 100-foot waves one knowledgeable weather watcher thought might develop south of the Aleutian Islands on Thursday apparently never materialized, but the climatic monster created by the merger of two North Pacific […]
Phantom cougar
A mountain lion is on the loose in Alaska’s largest city. Or so says the internet. The media involved is social, but it’s still called “media.”
