I’m an outdoor guy. I’ve often been of the belief that I previously reincarnated from a mountain goat.

Much of my pleasure in life is derived from climbing up the side of a cliff or running full-tilt down a rocky mountain trail or swan diving into a lake. I’m no stranger to bounding across boulder-strewn landscapes, bellowing: “The hiiiiiills are aliiive, with the sound of muuuuuusiiiic!!” like an athletic Julie Andrews with dude parts. Don’t ask why this happens; it’s just inspiration in the moment.

The number of bedbug cases in Anchorage has been dramatically increasing over the past few years, according to Eagle Pest Control owner Randy Beuter.

“That would be an understatement,” he said. The problem extends to bedbugs and scabies. Scabies and bedbugs are two separate things, according to Beuter, but similar in the result.

“Scabies are a mite that burrow into your skin,” he explained.

The theater industry is a competitive place with more actors than there are roles and more little jobs than big ones. When someone manages to be casted in a show like the traveling production of “Beauty and the Beast,” it’s a fairly big deal.

Actor Andrew Kruep plays LeFou, Gaston’s right hand man, in the traveling competition. Kruep, originally from just outside of St. Louis, spoke with The Northern Light before the company left Anchorage about his experiences as an actor, and with the show itself.

After spending a large portion of the holiday season away from Anchorage, the red-hot UAA Women’s Basketball team finally has the chance to get off the road and enjoy the comforts of home for a change.

A rare four-game homestand in the middle of their league schedule offers the Seawolves both a chance to settle into the start of semester as well as put a bit of distance between themselves and other GNAC foes who are looking to catch UAA atop the conference standings.

For a short while, Beatrice McDonald disappeared.

Someone must really appreciate McDonald’s likeness. It might be her decidedly 60’s-style haircut. Or her groovy, black-framed, wing-tipped glasses. Or perhaps her prominent secretarial work in the 70’s and 80’s, and her rich history with UAA.

Whatever the reason, someone lifted McDonald’s portrait off the wall of the Beatrice McDonald Hall and made away with it in mid-November.