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.

After years of mainly sitting on Cook Inlet beaches, commercial setnet salmon fishermen were back on the water this week as returning sockeye offered a lesson in how little we know about the survival ...

Musher blamed for dog death As part of accepting at least some responsibility for the death of a dog in this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, the Iditarod Trail Committee last week released a four ...

Unless you’ve been walking around with your eyes closed, the general decline in health in these unUnited States should have long been obvious in the abundance of double-wide, slow-walkers struggling ...

Butterfly effect As of this writing, no researchers have specifically studied the effect of this expanded “cold wake” on sockeye salmon, but it is obvious there is a possible “butterfly effect” here.

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 ...

Or worst best times? No matter what a train wreck legacy media have become in these times, the early 21st century has to be summed as the best of times and the worst of times for news consumers. It… ...

Alaska-connected financier accused of swindle A one-time best bud of Alaskan Gabrielle "Ellie" Rubenstein, a member of the Permanent Fund Corporation's board of directors up until last summer, now has ...

One of the greatest Alaska stories never told centers on the multi-billion dollar bonanza that the combination of global warming and open-ocean salmon farming has delivered the 49th state’s commercial ...

With the temperature near the summit of North America’s tallest mountain pushing toward 30 degrees below zero on this evening, hopes were fading for two unidentified climbers last heard from Tuesday ...

Only in Alaska can reality prove stranger than reality TV, and when the two converge, the outcome is near unbelievable. Consider the case of 78-year-old Duane Ose who off and on for years lived ...

Why Peltola decided to get into the risky business of flying guided hunters, their equipment and sometimes the meat of the animals they killed into and out of makeshift airstrips is unknown, but it is ...