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.

Posts about road safety written by craigmedredAs residents of Alaska’s largest city struggle and steam their way through roads still clogged by an unusual volume of snow, maybe it is time for some ...

Two mushers are involved, but before getting into what is known about them some things need to be said about the Kusko-driven implications for Alaska’s best-known and pretty much only major sporting ...

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 4… ...

Who fuels Iditarod behavior? The greatest threat facing the survival of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race today is not the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA); the ...

A group of international fisheries scientists is now pointing out the simple, ecological reality of mathematics long ignored by Alaska salmon managers: addition matters as well as subtraction. With ...

Alaska inattentiveness blamed in billionaire’s death The once richest man in the Czech Republic did not die because of a helicopter crash in the Chugach Mountains just north of Alaska’s largest city ...

The coming year marks the 30th anniversary of the state of Alaska’s attempt to control world salmon markets by banning fish farming in the 49th state. It would seem an appropriate time to review what ...

A former BP oilfield engineer who thought he could seize control of much of Anchorage’s upper Potter Valley by buying an old homestead and then blocking off a historic road has been rebuffed by an ...

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which for years put up with the antics of Cat in the Hat-musher Hugh Neff, has now banned him, but won’t say why. Neff says he got a letter from the race tu… ...

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 ...

Thank you, Canada Luckily for Alaskans, the Canadians, who are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on hatcheries to try to rebuild their failing Chinook stocks, appear not to have noticed and ...