If Alaska’s largest newspaper is to be believed, you can now add the so-called “Last Great Race” to the filmed events of which you must ask “is it real or is it […]
Iditarod, take two
Local warming
All the pretty snow was blowing off the Front Range Chugach Mountains above Anchorage on Wednesday as the winds gusted over 80 mph, and the temperature climbed toward 40 degrees. Welcome to […]
The long fall
Pity poor Alice Rogoff, the one-time owner of the Anchorage Daily News cum Alaska Dispatch News cum Anchorage Daily News all over again after she bankrupt her dream of being an Alaska-influencing […]
Fish food
News analysis Ÿnsect, a French insect farm, has just raised $125 million in startup capital to mark the biggest agtech funding deal in European history, according to AgFunder News.com. And half a […]
Danger times
Just about this time last year, the Kenai Mountains claimed the life of 29-year-old Tyler Kloos in an avalanche, and on Thursday Chugach National Forest Service officials were warning of danger building again […]
Land of the brave
From south to north, the dynamism that makes Alaska such an interesting place to live was on display over the weekend. First it was Bear Glacier Lagoon, a huge glacial lake […]
Bombogenesis
Dutch Harbor, Alaska – bombed by the Japanese Navy during World War Two – was bombed again Sunday, but this time it was Mother Nature delivering the blow. A huge, low-pressure weather […]
100-foot waves
The 100-foot waves one knowledgeable weather watcher thought might develop south of the Aleutian Islands on Thursday apparently never materialized, but the climatic monster created by the merger of two North Pacific […]
