In this the Age of Rage, it comes as no surprise that some in Alaska are furious that the animal-rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is protesting the […]
Bubbling anger
Who done it?
News analysis Only time will tell the consequences of the decision by the new Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race board of directors to reverse course on the old Board and clear […]
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 […]
Iditarod loses another
One of the “Flying Anderson” brothers from the days when every Iditarod dog musher of note bore a nickname has reached the end of the trail. Allan “Eep” Anderson of McGrath […]
Iditarod unrest
As the leaders in the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race were racing toward a halfway stop in the famed gold-mining town of Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada on Wednesday, the […]
Iditarod in danger
Alaska’s “Last Great Race” – the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race – is on the verge of losing the support of both its competitors and sponsors and could collapse, a consultant to […]
Idit-a-doping
News analysis To hear Iditarod dog mushers of today tell it, nobody ever doped a dog in Alaska. Just ask them. They’ll give you an earful. No one ever culled a dog […]
A trail for old men?
A week ago, a 66-year-old woman from Fairbanks did the seemingly impossible to become the first great-grandmother to win the Anchorage Fur Rendezvous Open World Championship Sled Dog Race – once the […]
Iditarod season is over
Austrian hiker Klaus Schweinberger strolled into Nome on Tuesday afternoon to bring to an end the official season of adventure on the Iditarod National Historic Trail. The last to finish the Iditarod […]
Iditarod’s village problems
Part II of a two-part series: Part I examined the circumstances behind collisions involving dog-loving Nulato snowmachiner rider Arnold Demoski and two Iditarod dog teams — incidents that left two mushers shaken, […]
