At 11:26 am late Sunday morning, MatCom in Wasilla received a 911 call reporting a rollover accident near mile 31.5, troopers revealed on Sunday evening. Troopers responded to the scene to discover the driver and passenger in the vehicle, suffering from injuries. The driver, 35-year-old Faith Igkurak, the investigation determined, had been thrown from her […]
Results of 2017 surveys and preliminary modeling for the 2018 Pacific cod stock assessment show a 71 percent reduction in the Gulf of Alaska bottom trawl survey Pacific cod biomass estimate from 2015 to 2017. The news came to the North Pacific Fishery Management Council’s Scientific and Statistical Committee and Advisory Panel on October 3 […]
CRAIG, Alaska — Biologists with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G), in cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service, are hosting a meeting at the Craig Ranger District on October 16, 2017, at 6:00 p.m. to discuss in-season management for the 2017 regulatory year (RY). Game management unit (GMU) 2 wolf hunting season for […]
A new NASA study provides space-based evidence that Earth’s tropical regions were the cause of the largest annual increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration seen in at least 2,000 years. Scientists suspected the 2015-16 El Nino — one of the largest on record — was responsible, but exactly how has been a subject of ongoing […]