A new escapement goal for late-run Chinook salmon into the Kenai River approved in mid-February by the Alaska Board of Fisheries has some commercial harvesters on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula concerned that it will limit setnet opportunities. On Feb. 14 the board approved in a 5-2 vote substitute language for proposal 104, which was submitted […]
FAIRBANKS, Alaska – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is accepting applications through March 3 for an artist who will spend 8 to 10 days on public lands along the northern Dalton Highway between June and September. The Artist in Residence Program supports artistic efforts from all mediums to promote increased interest in recreation […]
By the summer of 2020, a landslide will bury a portion of the road from the Denali National Park entrance to Wonder Lake. That’s the conclusion of Zena Robert, a University of Alaska Fairbanks graduate student who visited the park in summer 2019. Last summer, she did a ground survey of giant blobs of […]
Alaska State Troopers report that the two Kodiak Burglary/Assault suspects, 37-year-old Benjamin Bodi and 39-year-old Summer Suydam got as far as Anchorage before they were taken into custody. The two were arrested on Wednesday afternoon by Anchorage police. Anchorage police say that upon contact, Bodi attempted to flee on foot but was quickly caught […]