This Saturday! June 21 at 3:00pm Gayla Pedersen is hosting another of her popular tours of the Ft. Abercrombie shoreline where you can learn about Kodiak’s many edible seaweeds. Bring a pair of scissors and a plastic bag to learn about responsible collecting techniques. This walk is free and open to 20 participants. Contact Marya […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Lisa Murkowski today successfully added a key amendment to the 2015 State and Foreign Operations spending bill to restore the J-1 Visa program through Fiscal Year 2015 and help Alaska’s seafood processors statewide hire needed staff – after the State Department had suspended visas due to concerns rising from Lower 48 activities. […]
On Friday, the Alyeska Pipeline will shut down for as long as 24 hours says the company. The shut-down is necessary for what is called major maintenance, and will include the first pump station, Pump Station 1 in Prudhoe Bay. The company also plans on doing routine tests on the pipeline’s valves from Atigun Pass […]
On Sunday evening, Alaska State Troopers in Ketchikan received a report of a disturbance involving two males on a beach near mile 2 of the South Tongass Highway. Troopers arrived at the scene to find one of the men involved in the disturbance had got aboard his boat and left the area. He was reported […]