07/12/11 After a strong start, with the famed run of wild Alaska sockeye salmon coming in early, the blustery weather continued, but the Bristol Bay salmon fishery has slowed down.
05/17/11 Dear Friends and Neighbors, With the work of the Legislature concluded on May 14th, I'm glad to finally be able to get word to everyone on a number of notable accomplishments.
04/10/11 Loading Photo Galleries ... Residents look on as tsunami waves from a Japanese earthquake reach Hawaii. / Photo courtesy of News-Press.com Water rushed up on roadways and into hotel lobbies on the Big Island and low-lying areas in Maui were flooded as 7-foot waves crashed ashore.
03/11/11 HONOLULU (AP) -- Tsunami waves swamped Hawaii beaches and severely damaged harbors in California after devastating Japan and sparking evacuations throughout the Pacific. View Photos: Tsunami damage in Hawaii, California Water rushed up on roadways and into hotel lobbies on the Big Island and low-lying areas in Maui were flooded as 7-foot waves crashed ashore. Large waves also hit the U.S ...
03/11/11 The National Weather Service says a tsunami advisory has been canceled for northern Oregon and Washington. |
03/11/11 It made for a rather sleepless night, but the tsunami spawned by a major earthquake in Japan so far has had no major effect on Hawaii, including Wayland Baptist University's campus there.
03/11/11 A tsunami swept at least five people watching the waves out to sea Friday and ripped docks out of harbours in California and Oregon, spreading the destruction of a devastating Japanese earthquake to the shores of the United States.
03/11/11 The National Weather Service says a tsunami advisory has been canceled for Washington and most of Oregon. |
03/11/11 Tsunami warning issued for Hawaii, Pacific, and California North of Pt. Conception, Tsunami Watch for Southern California
01/19/11 A casting call is out for Alaska women to star in an Animal Planet reality show. "The name of the show we are casting is Alaska Fishermen's Wives," said Annette Ivy, casting producer with Shed Media US in Los Angeles.
07/27/10 Chignik Lake man will spend the next 35 years behind bars after killing his best friend with an axe during an argument over who was the better fisherman.
04/08/10 As a teenager growing up in Petaluma, Calif., Jim Rearden dreamed of coming to Alaska. He and a buddy had a plan. His friend would become a Bush pilot and Rearden would be a cattle rancher.
03/17/10 No one was seriously injured Monday afternoon after an Old Harbor-bound Servant Air flight crashed into trees just over Rezanof Drive from Runway 25 at the Kodiak Airport.
03/11/10 Residents of Chignik Lake were on patrol Wednesday, hunting for wolves they blame for the death of a schoolteacher while she was jogging on an isolated road this week.
03/09/10 Alaska State Troopers are investigating a death in the village of Chignik Lake, but neither troopers nor the Department of Fish and Game could confirm multiple reports from people in the area that the deceased was killed by wolves.
11/13/09 Kodiak and Alaska Peninsula crabbers got some good news recently: bigger catch quotas are allowed for bairdi Tanner crab, a mid-January fishery important to local economies.
11/11/09 Kodiak and Alaska Peninsula crabbers got some good news last week-bigger catch quotas for bairdi Tanner crab, a mid-January fishery that is important to local economies. Bairdi are the larger cousins of the better-known opilio Tanners, or snow crab.
10/24/09 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that nine rural Alaska communities will receive $16 million through the Rural Alaska Village Grant Program. |