Alaska’s Last Great Race appeared headed toward a confrontation with America’s Great New Fear as the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race moved toward the Bering Sea coast on Friday. Worried about the […]
Faster recovery
A decision by four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion Lance Mackey to dose his team with a pain-relieving agent with possible mood-enhancing benefits is stirring a lively debate within the small […]
Perfect storm?
World events no one saw coming are taking the shine off the season when Alaska traditionally begins the steady, uplifting transition from the long, cold dark of winter into the season of […]
Fast Great Race
News analysis The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race roared through the Alaska Range on Monday with its old title fading in the slipstream. There is little doubt now that thanks to modern […]
Toughest Iditarod
Far from the bright lights of civilization, the fat-tired cyclists at the front of the Iditarod Trail Invitational’s human-powered race to McGrath and beyond were Tuesday slogging their way toward Rainy Pass […]
Pushothon?
As 78 stalwart souls prepare to head north along the historic Iditarod Trail today, Mother Nature looks to be organizing a truly Alaska welcome. The frigid cold that had worried some rookie […]
Yukon ordeal
No one in America today knows better than Tim Hewitt the meaning of the legendary Archdeacon Hudson Stuck’s more than 100-year-old observation that “the greatest gift” one man can bestow on another […]
Dopey dogs
Alaska’s biggest sporting events have yet to hit the trail and already there is a doping controversy. This time it involves the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race from Fairbanks to […]
Salmon kings
While Alaska was trumpeting a 2019 Alaska salmon harvest worth $657.6 million, Norwegian salmon farmers were the ones truly raking in the cash. The Norwegian Seafood Council is reporting NOK $107.3 billion […]
Desert fresh salmon
Almost every day it seems there comes a new swell in the wave of change breaking over an Alaska commercial salmon industry that has been a mainstay of the northern economy since […]