Alaska sled dog sports were abuzz Friday with the news that the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race chief of drug testing is out, and three-time Iditarod champ Mitch Seavey, the oldest musher […]
Seavey wins
Musher’s goodbye
This story has been updated with the latest on the Morrie Craig lawsuit Three-time Iditarod champ Mitch Seavey, the oldest man ever to lead Alaska’s Last Great Race into Nome, says he’s […]
Railroaded?
An informal panel that met for eight hours over the course of two-days in private in Fairbanks has upheld the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race decision banning musher Hugh Neff from […]
Safe for now
The old home of legendary Alaska musher Leonhard Seppala of Nome is on the move. Nome city fathers who’d once ordered the building bulldozed to keep it from being used by the […]
Saving Alaska
As the 49th state speeds into its short summer on the quick trip to the longer winter, there are growing concerns that history is about to be lost at both ends of […]
Little girl battler
At first, seven-year-old Isabel Kerr’s problems seemed a small thing. Wasilla parents Gordon and Tara Kerr thought maybe their child was just a little clumsy. Gordon remembers wondering years ago if maybe […]
Idit-a-bike back
Over the course of three months this year, German Nina Gässler learned about the worst of Alaska, pedaled a fat-tired bike across some of the prettiest of Alaska, and eventually experienced the best […]
Sponsor gone
Essential oils guru Donald Gary Young was barely dead before Mitch Seavey, the three-time champion of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race got tossed to the dogs. People for the Ethical […]
Fair or unfair?
WASILLA – Publicly vilified Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race champion Hugh Neff said Wednesday in an exclusive interview with craigmedred.news that he doesn’t know what more he could have done […]
Dogged journalism
FAIRBANKS – I apparently did a bad thing on Friday. I went by the office of someone involved in a news story to ask questions face to face, something journalists used […]
