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Jul 10 2018

Alaska Aerospace Corporation launch facility in Narrow Cape. (Photo courtesy of Alaska Aerospace Corporation)

Alaska Aerospace Corporation launches subsidiary with focus on satellites

By Daysha Eaton, KMXT-Kodiak | Southwest, Transportation

Alaska Aerospace Corporation launched subsidiary Aurora Launch Services to focus on providing support for customers to launch vehicles with smaller satellite payloads into orbit.

By Daysha Eaton, KMXT-Kodiak | July 10, 2018 8:37 am

Jul 10 2018

Workers inspect pollock offloaded at Unalaska's UniSea processing plant.

Ukrainian seafood buyers want to connect with Unalaska’s fisheries

By Laura Kraegel, KUCB | 2 Alaska, Aleutians, Business, Fisheries

Seafood buyers from Ukraine are visiting Unalaska later this month. The country was a once-modest market for Alaska fish that’s slowly reemerging after political upheaval and economic crisis.

By Laura Kraegel, KUCB | July 10, 2018 6:43 am

Jul 09 2018

Dig Afognak camp on June 30, 2018. (Photo by Daysha Eaton/KMXT)

Summer camp promotes Alutiiq culture on Afognak Island

By Daysha Eaton/KMXT-Kodiak | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Alaska Native Corporations, Arts & Culture, Southwest

The land on which the camp sits was owned by Afognak Native Corporation and, after an archeaological dig was completed, the camp was turned over to the tribe and later the land was donated as well. Native Village of Afognak turned it into the kids cultural camp.

By Daysha Eaton/KMXT-Kodiak | July 9, 2018 12:55 pm

Jul 09 2018

Matt Crimp, left, Galen Eggleston and Piper Kurtz set their net at Upper Coffee Point on Independence Day. (Photo by Austin Fast/KDLG)

When fishing’s a bust, good attitudes can take you far

By Austin Fast, KDLG-Dillingham | Fisheries, Outdoors, Southwest, Wildlife

The Nushagak District has been harvesting about 1 million fish every day for a week now, so what happens when you inexplicably miss out on that bounty?

By Austin Fast, KDLG-Dillingham | July 9, 2018 7:22 am

Jul 08 2018

The ferry Columbia is tied up at the Ketchikan Shipyard in February, 2012.

Ferry Columbia still under repair, expected back in service July 13

By Joe Viechnicki, KFSK | Southeast, Transportation

The Columbia is expected to resume its schedule after leaving Bellingham on July 13.

By Joe Viechnicki, KFSK | July 8, 2018 12:00 pm

Jul 07 2018

Spruce beetle outbreak in the Mat-Su Valley seen during the 2017 aerial detection survey. (Photo courtesy U.S. Forest Service)

Spruce beetles take flight in search of new host trees

By Erin McKinstry, Alaska Public Media | Outdoors, Southcentral, Timber

The past two years, an outbreak concentrated in Southcentral Alaska’s Susitna River drainage and northwest Kenai Peninsula affected more than 500,000 acres of forest. It’s the worst infestation since the 1990s.

By Erin McKinstry, Alaska Public Media | July 7, 2018 1:25 pm

Jul 06 2018

Melted ice cream and uneaten crab: misery aboard the ferry LeConte

By Jacob Resneck, KTOO | Juneau, Southeast, State Government, Transportation

A power failure aboard the LeConte kept the doors from opening and passengers couldn’t disembark in Angoon. During that time, they were fed the galley’s melting ice cream, a fatal dog fight ensued and a seafood dinner donated by a local lodge ended up uneaten in the ship’s freezer.

By Jacob Resneck, KTOO | July 6, 2018 5:16 pm

Jul 06 2018

Sockeye swim upstream in Yakutat in 2014. A good “parent year” for sockeye in freshwater systems, Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist Nicole Zeiser says something “out of our control” killed sockeye in the ocean. (Photo by Nate Catterson/U.S. Forest Service)

Yakutat sockeye fishery blindsided by historic low return

By Robert Woolsey, KCAW-Sitka | Fisheries, Food, Oceans, Southeast, Subsistence, Wildlife

Commercial sockeye fishing in Yakutat has been closed due to historic low returns, leaving set-netters in a bind until coho and chum season later in the summer. Unlike other salmon fisheries around the Southeast, biologists never saw this coming.

By Robert Woolsey, KCAW-Sitka | July 6, 2018 7:24 am

Jul 06 2018

A shipping container is offloaded from the Hong Kong-based ship in Oakland, Calif., last month. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

China: U.S. has begun ‘largest trade war’ in history, retaliates with tariffs

By Colin Dwyer, NPR | Economy, Federal Government, Nation & World, NPR News

At midnight, U.S. tariffs took effect on $34 billion worth of imported Chinese goods — and Beijing responded quickly. The tit for tat marks a significant escalation in the countries’ trade dispute.

By Colin Dwyer, NPR | July 6, 2018 6:42 am

Jul 05 2018

The Trans-Alaska Pipeline runs alongside the Dalton Highway near the Toolik Field Station on June 9, 2017, in the North Slope Borough. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska's Energy Desk)

With Permanent Fund draw, higher oil prices bring Alaska closer to a balanced budget

By Rashah McChesney, Alaska's Energy Desk | Alaska's Energy Desk, Economy

About $72-per-barrel is the break-even point to close the state’s budget gap.

By Rashah McChesney, Alaska's Energy Desk | July 5, 2018 4:56 pm

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Alaska Aerospace Corporation launches subsidiary with focus on satellites

Ukrainian seafood buyers want to connect with Unalaska’s fisheries

Summer camp promotes Alutiiq culture on Afognak Island

When fishing’s a bust, good attitudes can take you far

Ferry Columbia still under repair, expected back in service July 13

Spruce beetles take flight in search of new host trees

Melted ice cream and uneaten crab: misery aboard the ferry LeConte

Yakutat sockeye fishery blindsided by historic low return

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