During the early morning hours on Thursday, a Kenai woman had an unexpected encounter with a mother brown bear and her two cubs in her yard. The female victim had been taking her two dogs out to the front yard at just before 5 am in the area of Karluk Avenue and Bore Tide […]
Anchorage, AK—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan and Congressman Nick Begich (all R-Alaska) today applauded the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (Corps) approval of a permit to facilitate construction of a life-saving road between the isolated community of King Cove, Alaska and nearby Cold Bay. The one-lane gravel connector will provide reliable transportation […]
There will likely never be a reality show called “Deadliest Kelp.” But even if mariculture in Alaska doesn’t have the same dangerous reputation as commercial fishing, it’s still a hazardous line of work. That’s why Alaska Sea Grant is partnering on new safety curricula and training aimed at the state’s burgeoning mariculture industry. “There’s […]
“Trump is getting Americans coming and going. He’s forcing higher power bills on them by blocking clean energy, then he’s fattening the wallets of his cronies,” said former Democratic Washington Gov. Jay Inslee. President Donald Trump’s obsession with canceling clean energy projects is bad not just for the climate, but for the US economy as a whole. An analysis released Thursday by […]