Barbara Swenson was in tears Tuesday over an elderly dog gone lost. His name was Scruggs, and he was no ordinary dog. He had come to live with Swenson in Anchorage after […]
Save this dog
Bear mauls three
A chance and yet predictable encounter between a grizzly bear sow and a group of young Alaskans along the edge of the state’s largest urban area sent three juveniles to the hospital […]
Cold summer nights
Residents of Alaska’s largest city were pondering the idea of global cooling on Wednesday with the National Weather Service warning temperatures in Anchorage could drop into the 30s overnight. While the Interior […]
Big fish day
More than a decade ago, a couple of Alaskans – one from Anchorage, the other from Seward – decided they wanted to do something for Alaska servicemen stationed in the cold, dark […]
When moose attack
Only four days after the Alaska Department of Fish and Game issued a warning to residents of Alaska’s largest city to be on the look out for aggressively protective mother moose, an […]
Iditarod crossroads
Commentary Before the last of the ice melts from frozen Fairbanks, Alaska, and the 2017 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race fully disappears into the ground blizzard of history, it might be a […]
Last Great Race
Tough Iditarod Trail
deemed “unsafe”
Of moose and men
If a moose dies in the center of Alaska’s urban heartland…. Well, suffice to say, it’s not the same as if one of the big ungulates wanders into the Yukon River village […]
Credibility problems
Update two: It’s complicated. The moose was injured. It was later shot not once, but twice to end its suffering. It wasn’t hit by a car as the charity that butchered it […]
Lone wolf survivor
A white wolf that isn’t supposed to be alive has finally made the news in Alaska’s largest city. KTUU.com on Friday reported the wolf in Anchorage after television station viewer LeRoy Polk […]
