It’s been a big summer season for commercial Dungeness crabbing in Southeast Alaska with a big harvest, a high price and a bump in crab boat numbers in the Panhandle.
Outdoors
Report finds Beaufort Sea oil spill response inadequate
A report released today by the World Wildlife Fund in Canada finds the capacity for oil spill response in the Beaufort Sea is woefully inadequate, even as Canadian regulators consider relaxing safety standards for offshore exploration.
How squeaky wheels are driving changes in Juneau’s tree cutting policy
This isn’t a story about a scandal, but about how a few vocal and connected residents became the proverbial squeaky wheel.
Gardentalk – Garlic
Tips on how to harvest, cure, and store garlic
Watch the sockeye come up Steep Creek
U.S. Forest Service fish cam near the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center is back online
Bring your brooms and scrub brushes; downtown cleanup is Friday
The downtown cleanup begins Friday at 8 a.m. at Pocket Park
Women crush record in soggy Sitka ’14 Alpine Adventure Run
On a day that seemed almost guaranteed to produce no record times, two Sitka women on Saturday crushed the course record in the 21st Alpine Adventure Run.
POW bat tests positive for rabies, prompts warning
A bat infected with rabies was found earlier this month on Prince of Wales Island.
Seiner engine room floods, USCG responds
A six-person seiner taking on water near Ketchikan Friday morning was helped out by U.S. Coast Guard personnel, and escorted back to port.
Remembering Peter McKay
Retired planner was devoted to rural development, arrived in Alaska after three month rowboat journey