Retired BIA director victim of risky job Ten days before Gene Peltola’s 2022 retirement from his position as Alaska director for the Bureau of Indian Affairs – where he championed the […]
Deadly flights
Deadly playground
Alaska inattentiveness blamed in billionaire’s death The once richest man in the Czech Republic did not die because of a helicopter crash in the Chugach Mountains just north of Alaska’s […]
Not fit to print
Journalists in Alaska’s largest city can now thank Nome’s Nate Perkins for doing their job for them. He was the first to identify 23-year-old Tyler Haroldson as the pilot who crashed his […]
Last run
A preliminary report released by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board today would appear to indicate that a group of skiers and snowboarders who died in a late March helicopter crash in […]
Dying season
And so the season of death begins in Alaska. A 40-year-old skier is dead in an avalanche near the Matanuska Glacier, according to Alaska State Troopers. Five more skiers, among them a […]
Speed kills
With Alaska’s largest newspaper about to publish a scandalous story accusing 52-year-old Andy Teuber of sexual harassment at the start of March, the former president of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium […]
Killing us slowly
While the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) was this week suggesting states make bicycle helmets mandatory – an act that has been shown to discourage cycling – the Rand Corporation was calculating that […]
Helmet distractions
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Tuesday issued its analysis of why increasing numbers of bicyclists are dying on U.S. roads even though some – especially women – now don’t ride […]
Danger land
Once again the dangerous tourist season in the north is underway with six people dead in a floatplane collision at the southern end of the Alaska Panhandle and an injured snowboarder rescued […]
Halibut Cove crash photos
The Homer News, a feisty small-town newspaper in the Alaska community at the end of the Kenai Peninsula, has obtained moment-of-impact photos of the Fourth-of-July holiday airplane crash involving Alaska media-lebrity Alice […]
