Seattle — Trident Seafoods Corporation, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Environmental Protection Agency have reached an agreement to resolve violations of the Clean Water Act for discharges of fish waste at two seafood processing facilities in Sand Point and Wrangell, Alaska. Under the agreement, Trident will remove nearly three-and-a-half acres of waste from […]
A Kake man was placed under arrest for multiple accounts of assault on Tuesday following a report of firearms discharge at 12:30 on Tuesday afternoon. Troopers responded to the community of Kake after receiving a report of “a male discharging a firearm in a neighborhood amongst the public,” the trooper dispatch reported on Thursday. Following […]
A Kasilof man was stopped by troopers as he was driving recklessly, after he was reported at approximately 7:30 am on Tuesday, as a person firing a weapon at a neighbor’s home and discharging a firearm across the roadway in Kasilof. The caller reported that the subject, identified as 35-year-old Adrian Rogers, left the scene […]
Silver Bay Seafoods has been fined $75,000 for alleged pollution violations resulting in the illegal discharge of 2.8 million pounds of seafood waste at the processor’s facilities in Valdez, Alaska. The settlement was announced on June 15 by Mike Solter, compliance program manager for the Division of Water within the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation. […]