Deshka River News Today

Every summer, one of the Valley’s prominent professional sport-fishing guides pens a weekly column in the Frontiersman updating anglers on fishing opportunities and conditions. He often also uses this opportunity

Deshka, a magnificent bald eagle, is the newest arrival to Wildlife West Nature Park in Edgewood.  

Wed, 04/21/2021 - 8:53am Crew from the Barnes’ setnet site near Nikiski guide a skiff loaded with salmon into the beach to be sorted on July 11, 2016. Fishermen in Cook Inlet are facing another poor harvest forecast for sockeye and the drift fleet is battling a plan to close the federal waters of the Inlet to all salmon fishing. (Photo/Elizabeth Earl/For the Journal) Cook Inlet’s commercial fishermen are facing pressure from two directions in the upcoming season: one is the looming potent...

By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The top woman competing in Alaska's Iditarod sled dog race, Aliy Zirkle, has been forced out of the cont...

ANCHORAGE — The top woman competing in Alaska’s Iditarod sled dog race, Aliy Zirkle, has been forced out of the contest after suffering a concussion and other…

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.metro.us/top-woman-in-alaskas/"></div>ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – The top woman competing in Alaska’s Iditarod sled dog race, Aliy Zirkle, has been forced out of the contest after suffering a concussion and other injuries on the trail two days into the event, organizers said on Tuesday. No details of the mishap were immediately available. But Zirkle, a fan favorite, […]<!-- AddTh...

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.metro.us/socially-distanced-iditarod-sled/"></div>ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – Forty-six mushers and their teams of huskies dashed off into the Alaska wilderness on Sunday in a socially distanced start to the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, embarking on a course drastically altered by the coronavirus pandemic. The starting gate of the 2021 event was placed off-limits to the usual […]&...

Forty-six mushers and their teams of huskies dashed off into the Alaska wilderness yesterday in a socially distanced start to the grueling annual event, known as The Last Great Race.

By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Forty-seven mushers and their teams of huskies were due to begin their trek into the Alaska wilderness o...