The blank lines tell a story How is it that in all these years nobody ever noticed that Chris McCandless, the young man who died a tragic early death in the wilderness […]
Revisiting the bus
Into the Courts
News analysis “Into the Wild” author Jon Krakauer is suing the people with whom he agreed to make a musical stage play based on his well-known Alaska book. No one knows exactly […]
California imports
A recent immigrant to Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula has been sentenced to nine months in jail and ordered to pay more than $100,000 in fines in connection with a September moose shooting spree, […]
American grievance
Who and what are you? C’mon, it’s the question of the day, isn’t it? Who are you and what aggrieved group does that place you in? Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has gone […]
Good old days
The supposedly Edenesque days of early America being uncovered at an archeological dig in Mexico are looking ever more hell like. It is one of the darker parts of the emerging picture […]
Misery
BROAD PASS – The precipitation was falling as slush on Friday, April 27, and it was hard not to think of Chris McCandless, Alaska’s most famous nobody, as the SUV sped south […]
Lost in Alaska
Once more a visitor to the north has gone missing in the Alaska wilds. This time, according to rangers at Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, it is 34-year-old Nick Larsen from […]
Welcome to Alaska
Young, visiting photographer Christian McLeod from Ireland went looking for a taste of Anchorage’s big wild life on Sunday only to fall victim to one of the city’s oldest urban nightmares – […]
Lost, found, abandoned
Do you stay, or do you go? Here’s the situation: You and your friends have just spent a couple of hours battling your way 20 miles down a muddy four-wheeler trail on […]
Lost hiker found
If you’re going to get lost in Alaska and you want to be found before you die, pick a popular national park for your northern adventure. Within hours after a man disappeared […]
