Lex Treinen, Alaska Public Media - Anchorage
Lex Treinen is covering the state Legislature for Alaska Public Media. Reach him at ltreinen@gmail.com.
For this Anchorage family, the road out of homelessness is a test of patience
Rhonda Tate, Richard Brady and their six kids have been waiting six months for housing they can afford that's big enough. They don’t feel any closer to it than when they started.
Hugh Neff wins Kobuk 440 sled dog race by 2 minutes
Richie Diehl gained about an hour on Neff during the last run of the race in the Northwest Arctic.
At Anchorage conference, Arctic nations say they’re ramping up military spending
Purchases of new submarines and F-35 fighter jets from countries like Norway and Finland come in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February.
IñuPiphany aims to teach Alaska Native women craft skills in Anchorage — and help beat addiction
Helen Lane says the space’s twin purpose fills a void in Anchorage, where many Native women don’t have access to elders’ knowledge about crafts and where many struggle with drug addiction and alcoholism.
Hiland Road reopens after massive avalanche near Eagle River
Truckers hauled out more than 30,000 cubic yards of snow from the area. That’s the volume of about nine Olympic-sized swimming pools.
Hundreds gather at Anchorage Baptist Temple to remember the late Congressman Don Young
The more than 500 attendees included Don Young’s family, plus many current and former politicians and Anchorage Baptist Temple’s religious leaders.
What’s wrong with the word ‘colony’? Here’s what’s behind a Palmer festival’s name change controversy.
After the Greater Palmer Chamber of Commerce announced its decades-old summer festival Colony Days would be renamed the Braided River Festival, public backlash led to a reversal. Some tribal advocates of the new name say angry residents missed the point.
Cut off by avalanche, Hiland Road residents lean on snowmachine shuttle and each other
Now that residents are feeling less at risk of further slides, some say they’re enjoying their temporary isolation.
The Bronson administration is negotiating a contract to build a 330-person shelter in Anchorage
The Sullivan Arena has been sleeping as many as 500 people each night since the pandemic started, but city officials are hoping to return it to its original use as a hockey arena.
Meet 12 Iditarod dogs from Steve, who’s kind of a jerk, to Nala, the peppy cheerleader
We’ve been publishing a “dog of the day” during the Iditarod. Here’s a round-up of who we’ve met so far.
Wind almost derailed Brent Sass’s first Iditarod victory. Here’s what happened.
Brent Sass and his team tumbled down a hillside in a raging windstorm on his final run into Nome. "The whole time I was like, ‘Yep, here we go, pulling a Sass again, making it interesting, and the last leg of the frickin race every single time.’"
Dan Kaduce finishes 4th in Iditarod. With 14 dogs, he feels like a champion.
Kaduce said he opted to keep 14 dogs in harness instead of sending the slower ones home.
Franklin, ‘the Michael Jordan of sled dogs’
“He's a really special dog all the way around,” said Aaron Burmeister.
Meet Slater and Morello, the sled dogs that led Brent Sass to victory
The two six-year-old Alaskan huskies led for most of the 1,000 miles, through headwinds and over hills.
The Iditarod has a new champion: Brent Sass arrives first to Nome
The 42-year-old musher took command of this year’s race around the halfway point and never gave it up.
‘Kind of a dream’: Brent Sass races to Nome, poised to win his first Iditarod
Brent Sass and his 11-dog team dashed out of the White Mountain checkpoint at 7:05 p.m., with just 77 miles to the finish line.
Brent Sass is first into White Mountain, with just 77 miles to finish line
Sass pulled in at 11:05 a.m. Monday. He can race on at 7:05 p.m.
Dan Kaduce is the only Iditarod musher still racing with a 14-dog team. Here’s how.
Chatanika musher Kaduce says it’s a combination of luck and good dog care habits that have helped him surge to the front of the pack,
From wrong turns to broken sleds, 6 mushers share their biggest mishaps of this year’s Iditarod
A lot can go wrong on 1,000 miles of trail.
Meet musher Hanna Lyrek, the Iditarod rookie who’s racing closest to the front of the pack
While she’s a newbie to the Iditarod, Lyrek has already proven her mettle in long-distance dog mushing. At age 19, she won the 2019 600-kilometer Finnmarksløpet, one of the biggest races in Europe.