An Anchorage man has died in an avalanche while backcountry snowboarding near Cooper Landing. Jeffrey Cheng, a 33-year-old from Anchorage, was overtaken by an avalanche… Continue reading
Did you know that more than 10 percent of the international border between the United States and Mexico is shared with several National Wildlife Refuges… Continue reading
It may seem quiet this time of year at the end of the Alaska Railroad in the small town of Seward, but the energy inside… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Big crowds converged on Alaska’s largest city Saturday as hundreds of dogs and their humans kicked off the 47th running of the Iditarod… Continue reading
FAIRBANKS (AP) — The mayor of Alaska’s second-largest city vetoed a new local law Friday that gave sweeping equal rights protections to the LGBTQ community… Continue reading
JUNEAU — Alaska legislative leaders signaled concern on Friday with two provisions of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s budget that critics see as shifting financial burdens onto… Continue reading
WILLOW — Joar Leifseth Ulsom may not be flashy or brash, but he has sled cred. The quiet, unassuming 32-year-old defending champion of the Iditarod… Continue reading
Our failing health-care
system hurts us all To you who believe that America’s health-care system is #1, I’m turning to you for answers! When a… Continue reading
The proposal is identical to the one-sentence measure the Democratic-controlled House approved.
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON — President Donald Trump showered praised on troops and touted the opening of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling when… Continue reading
JUNEAU — A co-chairman of the Senate Finance Committee said Thursday he wants to reach a budget agreement that would fund the state’s ferry system… Continue reading
This last September we hosted two earthworm experts from the University of Minnesota, Dr. Kyungsoo Yoo and graduate student Adrian Wackett. They study how earthworms… Continue reading
‘Mary and the Witch’s Flower’ brings a fresh take on a familiar narrative
This week’s recipes include Grannie Annie’s chili, Hot German potato salad and Chinese chicken salad
What’s happening this week
“… It takes us down a road and with a precedent that if it’s allowed, that we may come to regret.”
Micciche told reporters that if his constituents want a full dividend, he’ll push for that.
Climbing up a bedroom structure almost three times his height, my three-and-half-year-old son donned in his Superman pajamas quietly and quickly ascended to the top.… Continue reading
By DOM WATTS Imagine, if you will, a couple of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists in a seaplane flying over the Kenai Mountains, when… Continue reading
This week brings one of those highly acclaimed Oscar films that somehow missed us here on the peninsula when it was originally released back in… Continue reading
