Alaska State Troopers are investigating the shooting of a breeding farm cow that was shot between 10 pm on Saturday night and 12:30 pm on Sunday afternoon on Tanana Loop in Delta Junction. The cow did not immediately die, but bled out over a period of time after being shot with a high-power rifle, […]
Bull kelp. Photo by Melissa Good. Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation (AFDF) and partners, including Alaska Sea Grant, are excited to announce a new training program for people interested in starting a seaweed farm. The program will be held in Kodiak, Ketchikan and Sitka in February 2020. Applications are due by December 20, 2019. The training […]
Washington, D.C. – Thursday, Alaska Congressman Don Young introduced H.R. 2467 – the Keep Fin Fish Free Act. This legislation prohibits the Secretary of Interior and the Secretary of Commerce from authorizing commercial finfish aquaculture operations in the Federal Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) unless specifically authorized by Congress. This important environmental legislation has the […]
Troopers report that an arrest warrant is pending against an inmate at the Point Mackenzie Correctional Farm after he left the minimum security Alaska Department of Corrections installation late Thursday night. The DOC facility at 13690 S. Guernsey Road in Wasilla reported that 59-year-old Brian Church walked away from the minimum security facility between […]