What value in a human life? The Alaska justice system has finally made Martin J. Richards pay for killing 65-year-old Redzebije Imeri. The cost? $200. Alaska State Court records reflect that this was ...

The problem with tasty chickens With a chicken-fancying grizzly bear sow and her cubs still roaming upscale Hillside neighborhoods above Alaska’s largest city, there is an increasing social-m… ...

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.

Posts about road safety written by craigmedredAs residents of Alaska’s largest city struggle and steam their way through roads still clogged by an unusual volume of snow, maybe it is time for some ...

The Pebble Mine saga continues In a move sure to anger Lower 48 environmentalists and much of Alaska, Gov. Mike Dunleavy has decided to sue the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its… ...

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 ...

Predicting the future The authors of the WWF report, among them Gunnar Knapp, then of the University of Alaska’s Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), saw the 2023 price crash coming ...

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 ...

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 tu… ...