Forty-one years ago, a now defunct newspaper – the Anchorage Times – declared the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race was created to “commemorate the historic trip made by 25 mushers to deliver […]
No it didn’t
Missing madman
More than a year has passed since anyone has reported a sighting of Jerald Harrison, AKA “Slop Pail Jerry,” the Madman of the Yukon River. He was last seen near the […]
Arctic hot spot
What was once one of the crown jewels of Central Alaska tourism could be making a comeback after more than a decade of idleness and a slow but steady drift toward ghost-town […]
Techno-cold risks
Two feet and a hand gone to frostbite, 61-year-old Italian Roberto Zanda can only wish he had been endurance racing in the safety of Alaska’s Iditarod warmth this year instead of […]
Back to court
National Park Service nemesis John Sturgeon now uses a perfectly legal airboat to hunt the remote and wild Nation River near the Canadian border in Eastern Alaska, but his fight with the […]
Couch potatoes
If the latest data out from Strava, the global activity tracking website, is to be believed, Alaskans need to pull themselves off the couch and get moving. Either that, or they need […]
Yukon manhunt
Aboard a makeshift, homemade raft, the suspect in a string of summer arsons along the Yukon River slipped past the village of Anvik after a brief, Thursday encounter with locals who told […]
The feds arrive
Both economically and biologically, the commercial fisheries of Alaska’s Cook Inlet are imprecise and archaic. And now come federal regulators to try to apply Information Age precision to this chaos of […]
Facebook hunts Alaska outlaw
Up and down the Yukon River in the wild heartland of Alaska, the warning to be on the lookout for ex-con Jerald Harrison – a man now believed to have torched four […]
Yukon madman
With the ruins of yet more cabins along the Yukon River still smoldering, some among the 178 residents of the tiny, riverside village of Grayling are reported to be standing guard as […]
