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.

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 ...

What you don’t know can kill you. Twenty-nine-year-old Nick Vizzini had a passion for skiing. “I ski a lot,” he wrote on the Facebook page of the Four Wheel Camper Project M in February while ...

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McKinley’s first death of the year Brooklyn-born Alex Chiu fell in love with the mountains of the West, found himself lured north to Alaska by the biggest of them all, and tragically […] ...

McKinley’s first death of the year Brooklyn-born Alex Chiu fell in love with the mountains of the West, found himself lured north to Alaska by the biggest of them all, and tragically […] ...