Imagine the buffet. Forty-thousand oysters, lobster worth $400,000 and a cache of crabmeat all were stolen in separate incidents within weeks of each other in New England. The first seafood …
The Federal Bureau of Investigations office in Anchorage has issued an alert warning Alaskans of scams impersonating law enforcement or government officials demanding payment. Alaskans lost an …
A new season of the reality TV show “Alaska State Troopers” is set to premiere in January, nearly six months after crews were spotted filming with troopers in the Matanuska-Susitna …
UNALASKA — The orca pod that forages in the waters just north of this Aleutian island are quick to swarm any halibut boat with a skipper foolish enough to drop lines in their domain. As the …
The search for two men last seen the evening of Dec. 13 setting out in a skiff from Sitka for Camp Coogan Bay has been suspended, the U.S. Coast Guard announced on Dec. 17. The search was started …
When Matt Gerrits spotted a brilliant white bird wading through the shallows at Petersburg’s Blind Slough on Dec. 5, he initially thought it might be a rare white heron. A closer look revealed …
Southeast Alaska’s red king crab fishery delivered its most economically successful season on record this fall, with 205,607 pounds harvested worth more than $5.3 million in ex-vessel value to …
Lacking the usual amount of data to guide them, federal fishery managers relied on last year’s reports to set the coming year’s harvests for the nation’s top-volume commercial fish species: …
Members of the Alaska Senate spoke critically at a Dec. 5 hearing about a proposed new ferry terminal in Juneau, questioning why the project would be worth its multimillion-dollar cost. Earlier …
As an Eyak Athabascan born into a fishing family on Alaska’s Prince William Sound, Dune Lankard spent decades at work as a subsistence and commercial seafood harvester. Then after the Exxon …
Though the state is anticipating more oil production in the fiscal year that starts July 1, money from oil continues to make up a dwindling share of general-purpose state revenue, according to a …
Meetings this week between U.S. Forest Service leadership and Southeast Alaska timber industry representatives are raising concerns among tribal and other officials about the possibility that a …
One of Alaska’s smallest telecommunications companies is about to provide a critical backup for the entire state. On Dec. 3, Cordova Telecom Cooperative and GCI announced a partnership to lay an …
Significant progress in accessing the long-abandoned Tulsequah Chief Mine in Canada, upriver from Juneau, has occurred during the past two years, with the hope that a draft cleanup plan with updated …
Western Alaska, where almost all the residents are Indigenous, used to have the world’s highest rate of childhood liver cancer caused by hepatitis B. After decades of screenings and vaccinations, …
The Alaska Marine Highway System has put the Columbia back to work through Dec. 17 to cover for the Kennicott, which is delayed leaving a Puget Sound shipyard. The Kennicott was scheduled to start …
Officials with the Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management have announced a reduction of state emergency response operations and a transition from a response to a recovery phase …
Every morning, Alaska’s court system publishes an updated list of new civil lawsuits filed across the state during the past week. And every morning, that list is dominated by debt collection …
On Nov. 1, Sabrina James was scrolling through her phone before bed when she got a strange email from Alaska Airlines. A flight from Milan to Madrid had been booked using her miles. But the name …
The Southeast Alaska commercial red king crab fishery that opened on Nov. 1 is generating more money than it has in the past two decades combined. Red king crab is a low-volume, high-value fishery. …