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 KODIAK, Alaska - Excavation work for a new retaining wall for the Baranov Museum Saturday unearthed a part of Kodiak history when an on-site archaeologist recognized deliberately stacked rocks and ...
07/12/11 A ship expedition is under way to conduct the first modern-day survey of seafloor depths along a vast region of the Arctic Ocean.
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.
07/11/11 KODIAK, Alaska - Kodiak is moving forward with a plan to have more than 95 percent of electrical power generation come from renewable sources within just a few years. The Kodiak Electric Associati...
07/11/11 Anchorage has long been known as "Alaska's biggest Native village." With new numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau , the city can claim the state's largest Yup'ik and Inupiat communities.
07/10/11 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.
07/05/11 While most of America celebrated Independence Day with parades, picnics and fireworks, Bristol Bay fishermen cast their nets out under overcast skies for more wild sockeye salmon, the bulk of a 2011 statewide harvest of nearly 20 million fish to date.
06/30/11 KODIAK, Alaska - For the past six weeks, camera crews have been filming the Coast Guard in Kodiak and elsewhere for a television pilot episode that captures not only the attention-grabbing search a...
06/30/11 ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Shell Oil President Marvin Odum has faith that his company can develop vast reserves in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska's northwest coast. But he'd like to get on with exploratory dr...
06/30/11 The amazing thing -- when you watch Sarah Palin from a distance as an Alaskan -- are the words that come from the mouth of...
06/30/11 Improvements scheduled for the dock in Ouzinkie mean the Spruce Island village will likely be added as a stop for the Tustumena as the ferry travels between Port Lions and Kodiak.
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.
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06/22/11 Helen Margaret (McGowan) Brophy went to be with our Lord and Savior on Saturday, June 18, 2011, at the age of 79 in Post Falls after a long battle with cancer. She was born in Ottumwa, Iowa, to Thomas and Margaret McGowan.
06/21/11 Alaska legislators have a busy summer of international state-paid travel coming up, with Sen. Lesil McGuire and Rep. Bob Lynn headed to Greece this week for the Special Olympics and other lawmakers planning a Norway trip in August.
06/19/11 President Barack Obama 's fiscal year 2012 budget eliminates funding for all agriculture, forestry and fishing research by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). This means fishing safety programs -- budgeted at a mere $1.5 million -- will cease to exist.
06/17/11 Today, Senate President Gary Stevens, R-Kodiak, announced that the Senate does have the two-thirds support necessary to call a Special Session to extend the state's current Coastal Management program for up to one-year only, a press release said.
06/15/11 Arni Thomson, executive director of the Alaska Crab Coalition, began his second term today as president of United Fishermen of Alaska, with salmon seiner Bruce Wallace as vice president and salmon troller Rich Davis as secretary-treasurer.
06/14/11 Frontier Scientists explore the petroglyphs of Kodiak Island's rocky shores, and what they meant to an ancient whaling culture. Plus: Why mummification was the highest of compliments for a hunter. |