Anchorage police received a report of a multiple-vehicle crash at 11:53 am on Thursday at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Airport Heights and the Major Collision Investigation Unit responded to the scene. The intersection was closed and all inbound Glenn Highway traffic was diverted to Bragaw. The investigation revealed that an officer with the […]
Alaska Fisheries Science Center’s Marine Mammal Laboratory conducts research to manage and recover this critically endangered population. The North Pacific right whale is the rarest of the large whales. Only about 30 individuals are estimated to remain of the Eastern stock that lives in Alaskan waters. Scientists at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center’s Marine Mammal Laboratory […]
Biden administration signals that it will restart Clean Water Act Section 404(c) process to block the Pebble Mine DILLINGHAM, ALASKA — Thursday, commercial fishermen celebrated alongside Bristol Bay Tribes and residents as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it would not defend the Trump administration’s 2019 decision to withdraw proposed protections for Bristol […]
“Bristol Bay—home to some of the world’s most important salmon runs—is simply the wrong place for an enormous, risky copper mine.” WASHINGTON (September 9, 2021) — The National Wildlife Federation heralded the Biden Administration’s action that would allow the Environmental Protection Agency to move forward with blocking the destructive Pebble Mine. “Bristol Bay—home to […]