December in Alaska is always a grim time of year buoyed only temporarily by holiday cheer. The shortening of the days is impossible to avoid. Nine-to-5ers can go from home to […]
Cold, dark and dying
The danger season
With darkness fast closing in, the rescue of an injured skier was underway in Turnagain Pass southeast of Anchorage late Wednesday afternoon, but it was unclear whether the injuries had occurred in […]
Alaska snow drought
Alaska temperatures are creeping back toward normal as December arrives in the Great, Once-White North, but the snow drought that had “The Weather Channel”in March wondering if 2015-16 was “Alaska’s Weirdest Winter” appears […]
Alaska serial killer
The deeply troubling news coming out of the Anchorage Police Department today was that the rumor that a possible serial killer was on the loose in Alaska’s largest city was true. For […]
An AK media fable
This is a story about the death of a dog, a horrible tragedy for those who loved the dog dearly. But more than that, it is a story about the decay of […]
Harassed out of AK?
A “sex-crimes expert” from the state of New York has filed a lawsuit in Alaska Superior Court claiming she was fired from her job as a 49th state prosecutor because she complained […]
A new Iditarod distance?
The exact length of Alaska’s Iditarod Trail has been the subject of debate for years now. The distance from Anchorage to Nome started at more than 1,100 miles, shrunk to 900 miles […]
Global gas blues
With the administration of Gov. Bill Walker pushing full-speed ahead for an Alaska natural gas pipeline and the full-on export of liquified natural gas (LNG) from the Kenai Peninsula, it might be […]
Cyclist’s killer out of jail
Having served only 74 days for running over an Anchorage cyclist and leaving him to die, 19-year-old Alexandra Ellis quietly left an Alaska jail more than a month ago, according to the […]
APD fearing “ambush”
Anchorage Police are investigating attempts to “ambush” law enforcement officers in Alaska’s largest city. But what exactly this means cannot be determined because police refuse to say what happened. “I apologize for […]
