A Monday decision by 27-year-old Arnold Demoski to plead guilty to charges related to harassing musher Aily Zirkle during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and running down the team […]
‘Sled Dogs’ nets win
About the worst news imaginable for Alaska dog mushers was coming out of Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, on Sunday. “Sled Dogs,” the documentary that takes issue with the sled-dog industry in general […]
Director strikes back
The director of the controversial though yet-to-be seen film “Sled Dogs” is pushing back at accusations she misled the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race into helping her film crew follow a rookie […]
Director finally talks
The director of a controversial, though yet-to-screen movie about the sled-dog business has emerged from hiding to tell the CBC that most people have no idea what goes on in mushing kennels. […]
More “Sled Dogs”
“Sled Dogs,” the Canadian movie that has angered Alaska dog mushers and sent a ripple through the world of Iditarod, has not one but two new trailers out to promote its scheduled […]
The Good Samaritan
Good Samaritan Antoinette Holliday is out of the hospital at last and rolling around in a wheelchair, but the driver who ran her down on a short, normally quite road in Alaska’s rural […]
Alice Rogoff crashes plane
Big Fourth of July holiday excitement came early to the tiny community of Halibut Cove on the tip of Alaska Kenai Peninsula when Alice Rogoff – the owner of Alaska’s largest newspaper, […]
A tale of two mushers
UPDATED April 30, 2016 Brennan Norden is the outlawed Iditarod musher nobody knows. Four years before Alaskans started worrying about the treatment of Travis Beals, who the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race […]
Iditarod bans Travis Beals
A week after it was first reported the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race had allowed musher Travis Beals to compete while awaiting trail on domestic-violence charges, Alaska’s signature sporting event took a […]
Second-rate journalism
These are embarrassing days to be an Alaska journalist. On Tuesday, the Washington Post matter of factly reported that “in mid-October police questioned (Johnny) Manziel after witnesses saw the (Cleveland Browns) quarterback […]
