What exactly is the "spirit of the Iditarod'' in these times? This is a question that has been begging to be asked since the Iditarod Trail Committee earlier this week announced that Norwegian ...

Craig Medred is an independent Alaska journalist with over 35 years of professional experience as a reporter, writer & staff editor. This is his news site.

Anchorage's growing problem Ya got trouble, my friends, right here in Anchor Town. And that starts with a "T'' and that rhymes with "B" and that stands for birds! Chickens, namely. Backyard chickens.

Craig Medred is an independent Alaska journalist with over 35 years of professional experience as a reporter, writer & staff editor. This is his news site.

Iditarod's #metoo problem Update #2: The Alaska Department of Law this morning (2/22/2024) withdrew the charges against Eddie Burke Jr.. A department spokesman said a statement as to why would be ...

A death quickly dismissed Forty-eight-year-old Matt Glover from North Pole, Alaska, was, according to his many Fairbanks-area friends, among the safest and most responsible cyclists in the 49th state.

Last Great Race By 1983, the Iditarod was building toward its peak on a wave of media coverage, the romanticized vision of the old Alaska of Jack London and the enthusiasm of a new generation of ...

Only in Alaska can reality prove stranger than reality TV, and when the two converge, the outcome is near unbelievable. Consider the case of 78-year-old Duane Ose who off and on for years lived ...

Alaska inattentiveness blamed in billionaire's death The once richest man in the Czech Republic did not die because of a helicopter crash in the Chugach Mountains just north of Alaska's largest city ...

At trial in Anchorage earlier this year, Pugh testified that when he and his Russian-born wife, Oksana, bought the property in 2012 they knew nothing of the road running across it, but one would have ...

Soviet-style economics Prior to the 1990s, wild salmon dominated the world market and Alaska was the biggest producer of fish. And long prior to that, Alaska politicians made a Statehood decision to ...