1 day ago · 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.

Feb 3, 2025 · 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 […]

Nov 26, 2024 · 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…

Jan 31, 2025 · 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].

Jan 26, 2025 · There is, however, more than one way to skin a cat, as it has been said, and there is more than one way to transport energy.. Just ask the Chinese, who these days have a more than 3,000 kilometer long (nearly 1,900 mile), ultrahigh-voltage direct current (HVDC) powerline moving energy from coal-fired power plants, along with an increasing number of wind and solar farms, in Northwest China to ...

Sep 16, 2024 · A new Anchorage record Drivers of motor vehicles killed four pedestrians on Anchorage roads in five days last week and few residents of Alaska's largest city paid it much attention. Imagine if bears had killed even half as many in the same amount of time. Hysteria would have reigned. All of which says something…

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.

Jan 12, 2025 · 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.

May 28, 2024 · All the news that’s fit to print. The big Alaska news lighting up the internet over the Memorial Day holiday came from Denali National Park and Preserve, and it was arguably good news given that deaths in the wilderness are what usually turn attention north toward one of the 49th state’s most popular tourist attractions.

Apr 19, 2024 · 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…