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.

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 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which for years put up with the antics of Cat in the Hat-musher Hugh Neff, has now banned him, but won't say why. Neff says he got a letter from the race turning down ...

Lack of consequences = dangerous roads The question of the moment is simple: "Who killed Carlton Higgins?'' The Anchorage Police Department (APD) knows, but it won't say. Why? Because APD is in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Retired BIA director victim of risky job. Ten days before Gene Peltola’s 2022 retirement from his position as Alaska director for the Bureau of Indian Affairs – where he championed the idea of a ...

Fighting for Alaska wild salmon Now 82 years old, Virgil Umpenhour has been at war with Alaska's commercial salmon farmers, or ranchers as they prefer to call themselves, for most of his adult life.

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 '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 ...

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 ...

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 ...