Outdoors

The 34 dog mushers signed up to run the next Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race are the fewest in the race’s 50-year-old history.

CBJ says each household can cut down one Christmas tree in December, in accordance with the local tree harvest map.

Although very unusual, there have been some deadly winter bear encounters over the decades.

Under a revenue-sharing agreement, Goldbelt would contribute $10 million to the project and would get between 10-25% of gondola revenue. 

Motti joined the organization in March of 1983 and was still an active volunteer when he died.

AN SOS message from the snowmachiners said they were out of fuel and not dressed for the weather and that one of them was going into hypothermic shock.

The U.S. Forest Service just received $20 million for public cabins, said James King, regional director of recreation land and minerals with the Forest Service. 

A father and son from Switzerland paddled ashore at Lomack Beach in Bethel last week. They had kayaked around 700 miles down the Kuskokwim to get there from Lake Minchumina.

If the goal is a spring cutting garden, productivity can be extended by strategically planting mid- and late-season blooming varieties in the fall.

Money for the project comes from the federal infrastructure bill, passed by Congress last year.