This year’s robust wild Alaskan salmon 206.9 million fish harvest has an estimated preliminary ex-vessel value of $647.6 million. Statisticians at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) calculated the totals, which amount to a 10 percent increase over the 2018’s value of $595.2 million. Average prices for Chinook, sockeye, coho, pink and chum […]
Second annual report from American Lung Association explores how states can act to save more lives, support patients and families facing lung cancer ANCHORAGE – Alaska ranks near the bottom of the country with the five-year lung cancer survival rate at 17.6 percent. An estimated 400 Alaskans will be diagnosed with lung cancer in 2019, but more […]
On Sunday, November 10, 2019, two APD officers with the Impaired Driving Enforcement Unit (IDEU) observed a reckless driver traveling at 128 mph in a 60 mph zone. As the officers worked to catch up with the gray 2015 Audi sedan on Minnesota near Raspberry Road at 12:13 am, they temporarily lost sight of him […]
Commercial Tanner crab harvesters for the Kodiak, Alaska district will have a 300,000-pound guideline harvest level (GHL) for the eastside section and 100,000 pounds for the southeast section for the 2020 fishery opening on Jan. 15. The GHLs are based on analysis of the 2019 Tanner crab survey. They were announced by the Alaska Department […]