07/15/11 Wild Alaska sockeye salmon fresh from the waters of Togiak in Bristol Bay, flowed off of conveyor belts at Copper River Seafoods in Anchorage this week, as several dozen workers moved quickly to fillet the fish, weigh and package them for shipping.
07/13/11 It's a coming-home for Keren Kelley. Beginning Aug. 1, Kelley will be Homer Senior Citizens Inc.'s new executive director. "I am so excited to be doing this.
07/13/11 Alaska State Troopers on July 11 and July 12 reported a total of 34 new citations issued for violations in the Bristol Bay commercial salmon fishery. The list included 13 Alaskans and 21 non-residents.
07/12/11 Update: Plane found safely on the ground on Cape Yakataga. ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Coast Guard is searching for an overdue plane. KTUU-TV says the small plane was flying from Yakutat to Anchor...
07/12/11 The chief executive officer of Chugach Alaska Corp. resigned Monday after just more than two years in the post, the company announced.
07/12/11 Two individuals on board an overdue aircraft located by the Alaska Air National Guard were flown to Cordova today, after being picked up by helicopter at Cape Yakataga, about 85 miles southeast of Anchorage, a spokesperson for the Guard said.
07/11/11 If Alaska's Native languages vanish in the next generation, it won't be because people didn't try hard to keep them alive, says Gary Holton.
07/08/11 Alaska State Troopers cited dozens of commercial and others July 1-6 for violations ranging from fishing in closed waters of Bristol Bay to having unlicensed crew members on board, as well as sport fishing violations.
07/07/11 The 2011 Pioneer Farm Family Awards have been announced and will be presented at county fairs this summer.
07/01/11 A group of police department employees looking to break out into a new union made their case before the Alaska Labor Relations Agency (ALRA) on Tuesday, June 28.
06/30/11 The Interior Department is distributing over $25 million to Alaska communities in compensation for taxes that could not be levied on federal lands in their jurisdictions during fiscal year 2011, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said today.
06/26/11 For the past 14 years, Kevin and Jessica Quinn have been running Points North Heli-Adventures in Cordova, Alaska. Starting next winter, the Quinns will have access to a new non-motorized permit area near their heli base. By February 2012, they plan to have four to six yurts around their new non-motorized zone. Acquiring this new tenure has been in the works for several years and they finally ...
06/09/11 Pacific Northwest News is a mash-up of stories you'll want to read from news sources around the region, from Alaska to Oregon's Southern border and from Eastern Idaho to the Pacific Coast.
06/07/11 A draft final plan for redistricting Alaska's House and Senate districts to reflect population shifts noted in the 2010 U.S. Census has been approved by the Alaska Districting Board, but there are still details to work out, a board spokesman says.
06/05/11 ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The U.S. Coast Guard says that one of their Jayhawk helicopters and two good Samaritans vessels helped three fishing crew members escape their sinking vessels. According to a...
05/11/11 A hundred years ago this week, residents of Cordova, fed up with federal mandates against Alaska resource development, threw hundreds of tons of Canadian coal into Orca Bay. Their stand against distant federal decisions that made no economic sense mirrored the Boston Tea Party of 1773.
05/10/11 Morgan Community College commencement ceremony is set for Saturday, May 14 on the east side of the Fort Morgan Campus.
05/09/11 The Coast Guard on Sunday rescued two people whose small plane ran out of fuel and made a hard landing on Kayak Island southeast of Cordova.
05/09/11 The Coast Guard rescues two men after their plane crashed on a beach near Cordova.
05/07/11 ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Officials say a Coast Guard helicopter crew rescued two injured people whose small plane crashed 53 miles southeast of Cordova. The Anchorage Daily News says an emergency bea... |