Willow’s Collin Vice ran from a grizzly bear this week, and it’s a good thing he did. A human can’t outrun a bear in a sprint from the blocks. An Alaska wildlife […]
Run for it!
Dog-eaten paperwork?
Explanations as to why Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race musher Jessie Holmes felt it necessary to shoot four moose in self-defense in the space of a week in February remain unavailable, but […]
A wild life
Cancer has claimed Dan Gabryszak, a backwoods Renaissance man who built a life for himself and his family along the Yentna River north of Anchorage when it was still a wilderness a […]
Go carefully
A bridge too narrow, a creek too fast and a six-wheeled vehicle sold for its ability to “go anywhere” combined to claim the life of a 68-year-old Alaskan this week. Wasilla’s Barry […]
$60 million man
A jailed Wasilla businessman portrayed by Alaska’s largest newspaper as “a charming self-made millionaire and aspiring YouTube star” who dabbled in cellphone repair stores” appears now to have been one of the […]
Gone guy
Just as the short Alaska summer was beginning its slide into fall in the latter half of August 2018, 41-year-old Russian immigrant Vladimir Kostenko slipped into a backpack and hiked off into […]
TMP v. SLP
A certain TMP has filed for divorce from a certain SLP in the Anchorage Superior Court. The initialized filing was unusual enough that some court watchers took note. Not only are the […]
News fiction
Some days now it’s hard to avoid wondering if I’m a fool for believing anything printed in the New York Times. Old habits die hard, and most journalists who grew up in […]
DOA king fishery
Chinook salmon runs in Upper Cook Inlet have taken a depressing turn back to the future with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game this week announcing the closure of May, June […]
Palin’s war
Newscaster Katie Couric, who inadvertently made Sarah Palin famous, is finally giving Alaska’s former, half-term governor her due for turning American politics into the shitstorm it is today.
