Climate Crisis Sends Stream Temperatures Off the Charts HOMER, AK— As Alaskans suffer through the smoke, haze and danger of a record-breaking heat wave, Alaska’s salmon are suffering too. On July 7th, stream temperatures topped 81.7 oF (27.6 oC) in the Deshka River, a major salmon stream on the west side of Cook Inlet […]
Alaska State Troopers responded to the Moose River near Sterling at approximately 7:30 pm on Monday evening following a report of a swimmer at the confluence of the Moose and Kenai Rivers disappearing beneath the surface. Good Samaritans launched watercraft as Central Emergency Services, Fish and Wildlife also took up the search. The Nikiski […]
Unalakleet-based troopers motored up the Unalakleet River to a cabin located there to arrest a 60-year-old man on a 13-count warrant for various sex crimes on Friday afternoon, troopers report. When AST arrived 16 miles upriver, they took 60-year-old Henry Johnson into custody on the warrant that consisted of five counts of Sexual Assault […]