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.

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 ...