An unusually warm June in Alaska has glaciers melting so fast that they have in places destroyed the salmon fishing. Mark Hem in the tiny community of Chitina in the east-central part […]
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Lost in time
Two veterans of Alaska’s first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race – men who did not meet until two years ago despite being almost neighbors – are teaming to try to track down […]
They’re baaack
Just in time for the Alaska tourist season, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is back to again torment Alaska’s legion of Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race fans. The animal-rights […]
Fake news?
Alaska musher Katherine Keith, the spouse of Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion John Baker of Kotzebue, now says a video of a crippled dog dragging itself around with its forelegs in […]
PETA’s assault
Some days if you are a journalist, you are forced to write a story you don’t want to write but know you must. This is one such story. I had hoped other […]
Hot, hot, hot
Parts of America’s normally frozen north appear to be on the edge of some sort of time warp wherein the climate months – as opposed to the calendar months – jump from […]
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 […]
New age-old
Update: This story was revised on March 26, 2019 to reflect the findings of a gross necropsy on the dog that died in the Iditarod. When Richie Beattie’s dog Oshi died […]
Know nothin’
A long time has passed since Dick Griffith, a legendary Alaska outdoor adventurer now in his 90s, observed that “you young guys….eat too much and you don’t know nothin’.” As a journalist […]
Iditarod crashes
UPDATE: This story was updated from the first version to include Nic Petit’s decision to drop out of the race. Bad judgment is among the most normal of human behaviors, and Iditarod […]
