Survival training is key when facing an avalanche, as Ian LaCroix may have realized recently. Especially now that the spring weather is upon us safety officials with the State of Alaska, The Department of Public Safety have some key information here that could save your life. There are free classes available, they say. Ian LaCroix, [...]
The Anchorage Rage City Rollergirls took on the derby girls from Fairbanks Rollergirls during the All Star Roller Derby game on March 3 at the Dena’ina Center, Downtown Anchorage. Fairbanks Rollergirls (FBXRG) went down hard in the 3rd Annual Brawl of the Wild against the Anchorage Rage City Rollergirls with a score of, ouch, 69 [...]
Pizza with his favorite Iditarod dog musher, going to the Iditarod dog musher’s banquet, then mushing with Iditarod musher William Pinkham out the starting chute in Anchorage, Alaska. Nathan, who is just nine years old, is getting some of his wishes this year. He hails from Texas, and is looking forward to being part of [...]
While Palin / Davis, Iron Dog Team #11, driving Arctic Cat snomachines, were still on the trail, racing to North Pole from Nenana, the McKenna / VanMeter Team #17 on their Skidoo machines, crossed the finish line in what may be a record-breaking time in the history of the race. Eight teams scratched, team numbers [...]
Iron Dog is moving forward, full steam. There was a problem when an ice fisherman drilled holes in the ice and flooded the original starting chute that had been cleared of all the snow. But Executive Director Kevin Kastner sounded pumped on Friday afternoon about the start of the festivities and race. “We’ve moved the [...]
Energy Management Trumps Fishing Habitat On Feb. 5, 2012, Representative Les Gara sends a letter to the Dept. of Natural Resources’ Commissioner urging withdrawal and reconsideration of the commissioner’s current decision to allow “dredge and destroy” 11 miles of the Chuitna River, one of Cook Inlet’s best wild salmon streams for 25 years. A [...]
On January 10, 2012, the Fairbanks AC Subcommittee will conduct a meeting in the main building of Fish and Game located at 1300 College Road at 6PM. The meeting that was previously set at the Farmhouse located in the same address was moved to the main building to give a much bigger space for the [...]
Alaska Puppy Trooper Amy Bowen, is scheduled to arrive in Anchorage, Alaska on Tuesday, January 10, 2012, after a short layover in Minneapolis, Minnesota, says Beth Ipsen, Information Officer II, with the Alaska State Troopers (AST). Eight-week-old Amy is one of a litter of six Blue Heeler mix pups that were dropped off at the [...]
The workers on the Alaska pipeline who are out in the tundra may have the one of the best chances of any Alaskans, barring the smattering of local residents who live in the northernmost regions of Alaska, of seeing one of the Snowy Owls, and of course the “Snowy Owl Research” project people, who are [...]
The $500. cash for a reward was sweetened up with the offer of an ounce of gold for information used in catching the people who killed a moose and left it to rot. The donor of the gold is a local miner. The moose, found by another hunter, was reported to the Alaska Wildlife Troopers [...]
