Falls more dangerous than firearms Older Alaskans and the families of such take notice: The bedroom, bathroom and stairs at home are statically more dangerous to health than the firearms there. That […]
Costs of aging
Denali death
Collision kills Denali snowmachine rider Following two separate, snowmachine-dog team collisions that left five dogs dead and others seriously injured along Alaska’s Denali Highway this winter, the unmaintained state highway […]
The great addiction
More than a century on from when Henry Ford changed America forever with the introduction of the Model T, the time has come to ask whether we still own motor vehicles […]
Best Buddies
And the hardest goodbyes Fourteen days ago, Lars was in his element, and now he is gone. It’s horribly depressing to write that line, but it wasn’t like the end couldn’t be […]
Dangerous innocence
The risks of not knowing Spring in the Alaska wilds is once again doing what it does best, killing the unwary. The latest to die was a 20-year-old man from Illinois unfamiliar […]
Deadly wildlife
Some in the remote Bering Sea community of Nome, Alaska, long feared the consequences of inviting the muskox into town, and their worst fears became a reality this week. A herd of […]
Good-bye ‘useless’
Were the pandemic of our times the subject of a novel rather than reality, it would surely be premised on a scheme to kill old people to eliminate their burden on the […]
Everyone dies
Has the time come to accept Covid-19 for what it has truly become, the newest of the inevitable life-ending diseases that we all must one day face? “While overall COVID deaths remain […]
Deadly fun
Icy waters have killed another packrafter, the third in the last eight years to die in one of the rivers of glacier-dominated eastern Alaska. Forty-ninth state adventurer Roman Dial once described the […]
Trading fears
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is clearly over in the minds of many, if not most, Americans given that fears about mass shootings, the rarest of American homicides, and gun control are back in […]
