I live in a state overloaded with guns, and I fear death. But it is not the guns that scare me. It is motor vehicles. Today it was a woman with a […]
Killers on the road
Battlin’ bruin
With the shooting of a young grizzly bear in Anchorage this week, the bear wars in Alaska’s largest city begin again in what has become an annual, seasonal struggle that has left […]
A dog dies
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is now saying it is unclear as to whether a dog that died at the end of the 1,000-mile race across Alaska this year fell victim […]
No chance
A long-buried state report is shedding new light on a 2017 bear attack that left a young, Anchorage woman dead in Central Alaska and another woman injured and traumatized. The women were […]
Bear spray fail?
The inevitable has happened in Wyoming where a hunting guide who doused an attacking grizzly bear with pepper spray is dead. It is impossible, however, to say definitively that the bear spray […]
Another grizzly dead
A young, Bird Creek grizzly bear that concluded the easiest way to obtain salmon was to take them from fishermen is dead. Chugach State Park chief ranger Ben Corwin shot the […]
Alaska kills
Wildlife professionals Michael Huffman and Rochelle Renken loved the outdoors. They came to Alaska looking for adventure in the wild, and it killed them. Officials at Wrangell-St. Elias National Park on […]
Not moose, not murder
Injuries from a moose collision and foul play have both been ruled out in the strange death of 50-year-old Connie Segevan, an Anchorage woman sadly involved in one of the oddest news […]
The media’s goat
Did you hear the one about how a “crowd hungry for photos” drove a poor mountain goat to its death in the sea offshore of Seward, Alaska?
Dead dog season
The temperature in Anchorage, Alaska hit 75 degrees on Wednesday and in the sun on the south-facing slopes of the Chugach Mountain above the city it was 80 or hotter. This was, […]
