Anchorage, Alaska – The Association of Village Council Presidents (AVCP) and Tanana Chiefs Conference (TCC), represented by Earthjustice, have filed a lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) in U.S. District Court in Alaska, seeking to reexamine groundfish catch limits for the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands. AVCP and TCC collectively work on behalf […]
The Alaska State Troopers have responded to several suspected overdoses this week in the Mat-Su area. Law enforcement believe that a lethal batch of illegal drugs is currently circulating in the Mat-Su, causing the rise in overdose events. At this time, at least three people are believed to have died as a result of drugs likely […]
Alaska State Troopers report that a Houston man is facing several charges following a traffic stop in BBig Lake on Saturday night. Troopers say that they pulled over 30-year-old Garrett Gaffney at 10 pm on Saturday night for equipment violations. When stopped, Gaffney was found to be in violation of his conditions of release in […]
Two staff members of the University of Alaska Fairbanks recently rode 1,000 miles across Alaska on bikes with tires fat as a loaf of bread. Jamie Hollingsworth is a do-all field guy with the Institute of Arctic Biology and site manager of Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research program. Jay Cable is a research programmer […]