The “Last Toughtest Race” underway With minimal fanfare, what has become the Iditarod Trail’s biggest sporting event launched north on the trail Sunday, a day after the winners of the second biggest […]
Trail tales
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 […]
Pushing fear
Stop the COVID-19 madness. Just stop the friggin’ COVID-19 madness. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes this disease, is a nasty little pathogen, and everyone should take it seriously. But encouraging a moral […]
Studying not believing
Leave it to science to confuse you with data about what you just know is absolute fact. This time it regards the claim bike helmets save lives. Every cyclist reading this falls […]
Danger times
Just about this time last year, the Kenai Mountains claimed the life of 29-year-old Tyler Kloos in an avalanche, and on Thursday Chugach National Forest Service officials were warning of danger building again […]
Sun-tember
As Alaska’s urban core speeds toward the end of an unusually warm and dry September, the Centers for Environmental Information are suggesting there is more of the same to come. “The temperature […]
Globe cool, AK warm
Once again, Alaska is bucking the trend or leading the way. You decide. The globe might have ended its run of record high temperatures in September, but the 49th state didn’t. While […]
