(Juneau) – Under terms of the Pacific Salmon Treaty (treaty), the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) announced that the preseason all-gear catch limit for Southeast Alaska (SEAK) is 207,400 treaty Chinook salmon for 2026. The ADF&G target will be 205,300 Chinook salmon. This year’s target includes a 1% reduction from the treaty catch […]
Washington, DC—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-AK) welcomed the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the Ferry Service for Rural Communities Program, which will provide substantial federal funding for the Alaska Marine Highway System (AMHS). The funding, made available through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act […]
Delivery to Alaska Guard’s 168th Refueling Wing Culminates 10-year Sullivan-led Campaign WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), Wednesday celebrated the arrival of four additional KC-135 Stratotankers, culminating a ten-year campaign for greater military refueling capacity in Alaska led by the senator. The aerial refueling assets join […]
It was on this day in 1885 that President Benjamin Harris appointed Alaska’s first General Agent of Education. The appointment went to Presbyterian minister and missionary Dr. Sheldon Jackson Jackson, by the time of his appointment had already established numerous Christian schools for Native children. He would continue this throughout his occupying of this […]