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06/08/11 KODIAK, Alaska - The purse seine fleets in three Alaska communities decided to stand down during the first sockeye salmon opening in the south Alaska Peninsula. That decision by skippers of flee...
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.
04/08/11 A storm whipped by 100-mile-an-hour winds has caused extensive damage at False Pass, near the western tip of the Alaska Peninsula on Unimak Island, Aleutians East Borough officials said late Thursday.
02/02/11 SAND POINT, Alaska - A magnitude 5.9 earthquake shook several communities on the Alaska Peninsula, but there have been no immediate reports of damage. Krista Galvin is an administrative assistant with the city of Sand Point. She says it felt "like it just kept shaking, just longer than usual," maybe lasting as long as a couple of minutes. She hadn't heard of any damage, but said the school on ...
02/01/11 A MAGNITUDE 5.9 earthquake has shaken several communities on the Alaska Peninsula, but there have been no reports of damage.
02/01/11 SAND POINT, Alaska - A magnitude 5.9 earthquake shook several communities on the Alaska Peninsula, but there have been no immediate reports of damage. Krista Galvin is an administrative assistan...
12/13/10 Residents of Port Heiden on the Alaska Peninsula have asked the Alaska Department of Public Safety and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) for help with aggressive wolves that have
12/10/10 Scientists from UAF have confirmed that dinosaur tracks on the Alaska Peninsula date back to the Jurassic Period, 150 million years ago.
12/08/10 Associated Press The presence of hungry wolves on the Alaska Peninsula has the state Fish and Game department working on an action plan. The caribou population is depressed there, and the wolves have been killing house pets in Port Heiden. Last spring a young teacher was attacked and killed by wolves when she was running down [...]
11/30/10 Many Alaskans are familiar with the tale of Hig Higman and wife Erin McKittrick walking, paddling and skiing from Seattle to the tip of the Alaska Peninsula -- an unprecedented trek through some of the most rugged and pristine terrain in North America. At the Anchorage International Film Festival, which opens Friday, Alaskans will be able to see the trip unfold for the first time.
08/25/10 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- High on a hill at Perryville, 500 miles southwest of Anchorage on the Alaska Peninsula, the family of a young schoolteacher killed by wolves has scattered her ashes, and found solace, they said, in a place Candice Berner loved
08/24/10 The Pennsylvania family of a teacher killed by wolves in March at Chignik Lake on the Alaska Peninsula visited the area this month to spread her ashes.
05/14/10 Work is under way to install electricity-generating wind turbines at Izembek National Wildlife Refuge and Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge. The vertical turbines are designed to minimize bird strikes.
04/28/10 The residents of the Alaska Peninsula want to protect our salmon, crab, halibut, pollock, whales, wildlife, beaches, and in fact, the region's existence. We do not want to risk generations of history on "what if something goes wrong."
04/16/10 ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Alaska Earthquake Information Center says a magnitude 5.6 earthquake centered in the Pacific Ocean about 35 miles off the Alaska Peninsula was felt in the peninsula communit...
04/16/10 The Alaska Earthquake Information Center says a magnitude 5.6 earthquake centered in the Pacific Ocean about 35 miles off the Alaska Peninsula was felt in the peninsula community of Sand...
03/18/10 ANCHORAGE - Last August above the Alaska Peninsula, a 30-something teacher from the East Coast snapped photo out the window of a plane. The frame captured the underside of the wing, a distant snowy mountain and a muddy creek snaking through a green valley far below. A few days later, Candice Berner posted her snapshot in the first entry of a blog about teaching in rural Alaska. She titled the ...
03/13/10 Villagers in Chignik Lake on the Alaska Peninsula take precautions after the first known fatal wolf attack in U.S. in modern times. Hunters were combing the snowy brush around Chignik Lake, Alaska, on Friday in an attempt to hunt down up to four wolves that killed a 32-year-old special education teacher in the first known fatal wolf attack in the U.S. in modern times.
03/12/10 The Associated Press teacher jogging along a rural Alaskan road was killed in an animal attack and authorities say wolves are the chief suspects. The body of Candice Berner, 32, was found Monday off the road a mile outside the village of Chignik Bay on the Alaska Peninsula, which is about 474 miles southwest of Anchorage.
03/09/10 Authorities were in an Alaska Peninsula village Tuesday investigating whether a 32-year-old school teacher, found dead off a road leading out of town, was killed in a wolf attack, according to state and local officials.
02/17/10 The Department of Environmental Conservation is keeping an eye on a boat that went aground and was refloated on the southwest side of the Alaska Peninsula. | 
