06/14/11 A Post Falls High School graduate who died after climbing Mount McKinley on Friday was praised as an adventurer and someone who always had a kind word for others.
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06/14/11 The bag and possession limit for salmon, other than kings, 20 inches or longer in the Afognak River drainage is increased to 10 a day, 10 in possession, of which no more than five may be pink salmon, chum salmon or coho salmon.
06/14/11 Kotzebue dental pioneer Robert Lathrop died on June 8, in Anchorage. He was 87 years old. Lathrop worked for the Territorial Department of Health's Mobile Marine Unit on the ship MV Health, during the 1940s, traveling from Kodiak to Point Hope to provide dental care.
06/13/11 The North Pacific Fishery Management Council has voted to establish the first-ever limit on chinook salmon bycatch with a 25,000 fish cap in the Gulf of Alaska pollock fishery, a news release said.
06/13/11 Federal fishery managers responding to the record incidental catch of 51,000 king salmon in the 2010 Gulf of Alaska groundfish fishery, have voted to set a first ever bycatch limit of 25,000 Chinook salmon in the Gulf of Alaska Pollock fishery.
05/30/11 Ocean conditions that last year triggered algal blooms and outbreaks of Paralytic Shellfish Poison (PSP) appear to be present again this summer, according to experts at the University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences.
05/29/11 DAN JOLING Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska Continued disagreement on how to extend Alaska's coastal zone management program has halted plans for a second special legislative session, House and Senate leaders said Sunday. Legislative leaders last week told members to book airplane tickets for Juneau. However, plans for the special session fell apart when both sides failed to budge from ...
05/28/11 This year, the tide book has a problem. Fishermen and other mariners are being warned that tide information for Port Moller, on the northern side of the Alaska Peninsula, is off by eight to 10 hours.
05/26/11 Special Olympics Alaska raised more than $83,000 in pledges at the recent Alaska Law Enforcement Torch Run, which ran simultaneously in 12 localities Saturday.
05/26/11 Resident thought late-night visitor was a prowler Randy Hagood turned off his lights to return to bed about 3 a.
05/26/11 Tom Alexander usually stood 25 feet above the water line as he steered his 60-foot yacht in Gulf of Alaska waters between Kodiak Island and Whittier. But by the time he abandoned his sinking vessel Sunday, he only had to step a foot down into cold seawater.
05/26/11 The final $3.1 billion capital budget passed by state lawmakers this month includes nearly $144 million for the House districts that serve much of the Kenai Peninsula.
05/23/11 Industrial employment in Alaska increased 1.3% over the past twelve months according to the 2011 Alaska Manufacturers Directory, an industrial directory published annually by Manufacturers' News, Inc.
05/23/11 With Benjamin Dean Maxon filling in temporarily, four candidates, including Maxon, have applied to become chief of the Anchor Point Fire and Emergency Medical Service Area.
05/22/11 Five Anchorage residents who had to abandon ship from a 60-foot Kodiak-based pleasure craft to a life raft were rescued 45-minutes later on May 22 by a Coast Guard helicopter crew, 85 miles north of Kodiak, Coast Guard officials said.
05/22/11 ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A Coast Guard helicopter plucked five people off a life raft Sunday as their pleasure boat sank about 85 miles north of Kodiak Island in Alaska.
05/22/11 The Alaska Coast Guard rescued five Anchorage residents from their 60-foot Kodiak based pleasure craft, "Nordic Mistress", after it began to sink near Kodiak.
05/09/11 The Coast Guard rescues two men after their plane crashed on a beach near Cordova.
05/06/11 The publisher of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner has been named Alaska Airlines' regional vice president for Alaska. |