Pilot project focuses on gillnet, seabird interactions in fisheries
A new project of the Skipper Science Partnership and the Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation (AFDF), which launched on July 1, is asking fishermen to...
Alaska Native villages to receive $39.6M for water infrastructure
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials have announced $39.6 million in grant funds during fiscal year 2023 in annual appropriations for Alaska rural and...
Two new calves join Southern Resident killer whale pod
Two new calves in apparent good health have been born into the endangered Southern Resident killer whale population in the Strait of Georgia, in...
Feet on the ground right after the big one
On March 27, 1964, California geologist George Plafker was attending a research conference in Seattle when news came of a big earthquake in Alaska.“It...
NOAA researcher’s new book celebrates disabilities
A new book by NOAA research biologist Skylar Bayer, of the Alaska Regional Office in the Habitat Conservation Division in Juneau, celebrates scientists with...
Complaint with APOC contends violations in effort to repeal ranked choice voting
Alaskans for Better Elections has filed a complaint with the Alaska Public Offices Commission (APOC) alleging that four organizations and two men perpetrated multiple...
Rededication of Job Corps Center honors Don Young
Chugach Training & Education Solutions (CTES), a subsidiary of Chugach Alaska Corp., hosted the recent rededication of the Alaska Job Corps Center, to be...
New coloring book features Alutiiq fishing traditions
A coloring book published last week by the Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak captures many aspects of traditional Alutiiq fishing practices and Alaskan fish —...
Senators back plan for additional weapons for Ukraine
Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Mark Kelly, D-AZ, Joe Manchin, D-WV, and Tammy Duckworth, D-IL, have come out in support of the Biden administration’s decision...
Healthy oceans are vital to Alaska
By Sen. Lisa MurkowskiOn an early morning walk around Juneau, I saw a bustling waterfront – a harbor full of small fishing boats, a...
