TOLOVANA ROADHOUSE — On the dark, frozen white plain of the Tanana River, a white dot appeared in the night. It was the headlamp of Ryan Redington, a dog musher in the 2025 Iditarod race, the start of which officials moved from Willow to Fairbanks because of low snow conditions. The rerouted trail followed the […]
When I was drinking coffee with a cab-driving-author friend of the same vintage last week, he said of my occupation: “It’s the best job in Alaska.” After a few seconds of pondering, I nodded. It has been 11,000 days since Oct. 25, 1994. That’s when I wrote my first story, a Halloween-themed piece on little […]
With his eyes on Alaska weather and climate for many years, Rick Thoman saw a need for a recent update on what is happening within America’s largest state. “Alaska was being hammered with extreme events,” he said. That resulted in the publication of Alaska’s Changing Environment 2.0, a product of the Alaska Center for Climate […]
Things an Alaskan notices while standing on a road in Costa Rica: Trees are shaped like mint-green umbrellas rather than charcoal-green rocket ships. Flesh-colored flowers smell like warm honey as they fall with a plop from a tree to sticky pavement. A bird perched on a power line has turquoise eyebrows and a double tail […]