2025年1月31日 · 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.

2025年1月22日 · craigmedred. craigmedred.news is committed to Alaska-related news, commentary and entertainment. it is dedicated to the idea that if everyone is thinking alike, someone is not thinking. you can contact the editor directly at [email protected].

2025年1月12日 · Posts about News written by craigmedred. Industrial-scale, ocean farming all good – state officials Only weeks after a Seattle biologist warned Canadians that salmon numbers in the North Pacific Ocean have reached the point where ocean-farmed fish threaten […]

2024年11月26日 · Already facing a tide of outmigration, Alaska today finds its largest city pegged among the top five of the "30 Worst Places to Live in the United States.'' So much for the old idea of selling Anchorage as a comfortable, civilized, climate-change refuge on the edge of a vast wilderness ripe for recreational exploration. And…

About. Craig Medred is an independent Alaska journalist who has worked out of Fairbanks, Juneau and Anchorage. By car, truck, airplane, snowmachine, pack raft, sailboat, skis, snowshoes and foot, he has traveled much of the state from Ketchikan in the south to Barrow in the north and from Nome in the west to Eagle in the east.

2025年1月12日 · Thank you, Mr. Medred, for this very enlightening bit of information. Like many, I’m wondering what lies ahead for Alaska’s declining wild salmon fisheries, as, short of an Endangered Species declaration, it doesn’t seem likely that anything meaningful will be done to confront the powerful economic interests driving the decline.

2025年1月10日 · None of the rewards Russian President Vladimir Putin, the wannabe King of the Arctic, is falling short on his vision of turning his country's Northern Sea Route into a legitimate alternative to the Suez Canal, but Alaskans should be concerned nonetheless. Sputnik news reports Russia set a new shipping record last year when it hauled…

2024年4月19日 · A death quickly dismissed Forty-eight-year-old Matt Glover from North Pole, Alaska, was, according to his many Fairbanks-area friends, among the safest and most responsible cyclists in the 49th state. A wildland firefighter by training, he moved north from California in 1999. Riding his various bikes at the time kept him in shape for the…

2024年4月4日 · Alaska's white pavements PLACER RIVER - The snowpack in this glacier-headed drainage 50 miles southeast of Alaska's largest city was still at least four feet thick on Wednesday and with the early morning temperatures in the 20s, a fat-tired bike could be ridden almost anywhere across the white pavements. Global warming might be transforming the…

2021年9月24日 · PLACER RIVER – The wind blew hard and cold from the north on Tuesday, and the new normal urban Alaska has come to expect seemed a long time gone.. The snow was creeping quickly down the Chugach and Kenai mountains bordering Turnagain Arm, and friends to the north in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley were already reporting the white stuff piled inches deep in Hatcher Pass.