One of Anchorage’s most unforgettable characters died in Portland on Wednesday when he was struck by a Max Light Rail train. Eighty-one-year-old Michael O’Callaghan was one of those rare do-gooders who walked […]
Goodbye Mike
A bad look
Anchorage has become an unmentionable The data-crunching website Wallet Hub is out with its list of “Best Summer Travel Destinations (2025)” and guess what, the 76th largest city in the country […]
Road kill 3
The enablers Part 3 of a three-part series As if road deaths in U.S. could be made funny, artist Woodrow Phoenix once sketched a comic book titled “Crash Course: If You Want […]
Maybe in May
Coming off the warmest year in Alaska history, the 49th state’s largest city has now racked up four months in a row with average temperatures below normal, according to National Weather […]
Crap
PORTLAND, Ore. – Anchorage’s mob of fat-tired cyclist ranting about those little bags of dog crap showing up alongside trails all over Alaska’s largest city, take note: It’s not just an Anchorage […]
Northern fitness
Despite being dragged down by Anchorage’s lack of sidewalks and its disconnected network of multi-use/bike trails, Alaska’s largest city scores big in the American Fitness Index just released by American College of […]
Another one gone
Denali search ends tragically
A Denali National Park search for 24-year-old Michael Purdy from Portland has ended tragically with his body found near the Savage River. National Park Service officials reported Sunday afternoon that a ground […]
Lost in Alaska
The tourist season hasn’t really begun yet in Alaska’s 6-million-acre Denali National Park and Preserve, but already the first search for a missing hiker is underway. Park officials say 24-year-old Michael Purdy […]
