$4M+ NOAA grant aids AOOS data collection
Data collection by the Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS) will be funded over the next five years through a cooperative agreement with NOAA’s U.S....
Oct. 3 is comment deadline on invasive plant management
Comments are due by Sunday, Oct. 4 on the Wrangell-Petersburg Invasive plant management project within Tongass National Forest.
AMHS summer 2022 schedule open for booking
Alaska Marine Highway System officials have released the 2022 summer schedule, allowing travelers to now book reservations through September 2022.
Goat hunt ends for RG249 North of Valdez Arm
Registration permit hunt RG249 for mountain goats in Game Management Unit 6D closed by emergency order at 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday Sept. 29.
Net Your Problem recycling reaches 1M pounds
Four years after former North Pacific groundfish observer Nicole Baker got inspired to find a way to recycle fishing nets from Unalaska she’s already reached one million pounds of recycled fishing gear and looking for more.
Alaska leads nation in new COVID cases
Alaska continues to be one of the hottest spots in the nation for COVID-19 cases, with 4,753 new cases reported in the state in just four days, plus 31 deaths.
Hilcorp Alaska and Harvest Midstream are new Iditarod sponsors
Hilcorp Alaska and Harvest Midstream have signed on in support of the 50th anniversary of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, joining Donlin Gold as principal sponsors of the famed mushing competition over the rugged 1,000 mile trail from Anchorage to Nome.
New brochure promotes authentic Alaska Native art
A new consumer education brochure produced by the Interior Department’s Indian Arts and Crafts Board (IACB) promotes creative work by Alaska Native artists and...
SEITC funded for fish consumption project
A federal grant will fund efforts of the Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission and Wrangell Cooperative Association to collect data on the amount of fish and other seafood consumed by indigenous people who reside in Wrangell.
Alaska leads nation in new COVID cases
Alaska set a record high of 1,735 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, Sept. 23, with five new cases of the pandemic virus in the Copper River Census Area, as the state’s largest hospital continued operating under crisis standards of care.
