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.

The 'Soft American' grows ever softer With the unUnited States of America having become, collectively, the fattest, unfittest, unhealthiest and, in some ways, unfriendliest nations in the Western ...

Alaska-connected financier accused of swindle A one-time best bud of Alaskan Gabrielle "Ellie" Rubenstein, a member of the Permanent Fund Corporation's board of directors up until last summer, now has ...

A withering Iditarod faces an unknown future. Part one of a series. Forty years ago, a young Athabascan dog driver named Howard Albert from the village of Ruby on the Yukon River sat beside a campfire ...

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 ...

A former BP oilfield engineer who thought he could seize control of much of Anchorage's upper Potter Valley by buying an old homestead and then blocking off a historic road has been rebuffed by an ...

The benefits and the cost Twenty-five-years ago economist Steve Colt wrote an "economic history" of "Salmon Fish Traps in Alaska" that ended with this line: "It may be time for Alaskans to reconsider ...

Iditarod PR badly, badly botched. The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, an event that claims to be “all about the dogs,” this week disqualified a musher who was all about the dogs, lied about ...

Evidence now points to victim-blaming effort The Alaska State House of Representatives on Thursday joined the state Senate in endorsing the idea of naming a Fairbanks-area bike path after dead cyclist ...

Who fuels Iditarod behavior? The greatest threat facing the survival of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race today is not the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA); the ...

Thank you, Canada. Luckily for Alaskans, the Canadians, who are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on hatcheries to try to rebuild their failing Chinook stocks, appear not to have noticed and ...