Global warming was out as April rolled into the far north. The bad cold days were back. And humankind was struggling to adapt. Along the Bering Sea in Northwest Alaska, the Kobuk […]
(C)old Alaska
Forgotten tribe
Once again, an Alaska leader is in a battle with federal officialdom more than 3,000 miles away on the opposite coast of the North American continent. This time it is Gov. Mike […]
Bankruptcy pays
Stiffed on a $119 pair of boots by millionaire Alice Rogoff in 2017 – the former owner and publisher of what is today the Anchorage Daily News (ADN.com) – the proprietor of […]
Unleashed
UPDATE Feb. 17, 2021 The Municipality of Anchorage has now answered the request to review its records, as stipuled by state law, to try to determine where, if and to what […]
Headin’ south
The exodus from Alaska continues; the long-running recession lingers; and Anchorage witnessed the biggest growth in new residential construction in five years. Go figure. State Labor Department economist Neal Fried said he doesn’t […]
Bad wind rising
With new, loose snow more than a foot deep in the mountains that shade Anchorage and hurricane-force winds in the forecast for Monday evening, Alaska’s largest city appeared poised to be clobbered […]
Old normal
While most of the United States was this year zigging into the fourth warmest November in recorded history, Alaska – or at least the most populated part of it – was […]
How fears die
With a range from the tropics to the poles both north and south, and an ever-growing population, homo sapiens have demonstrated themselves the most adaptable, four-limbed species on planet Earth, and the […]
Roadkill
A decades old mystery as to what is killing coho salmon returning to streams in the cities of the Pacific Northwest appears to have been solved, and motor vehicles, or more specifically […]
Saved by truck
An Anchorage man who reported intentionally running his truck into a moose is being praised as a hero by his neighbors on social media. They have good reason if the story told […]
