Outdoors

Carved into the Bering Sea shelf are some of the ocean’s largest underwater canyons. Now, fisheries regulators have charted a path for managing this habitat, which allows for future conservation measures.

A group of scientists is calling on Congress to increase protection for 77 streams on Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest.

This weekend, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council voted to put new restrictions on the Gulf of Alaska trawl fleet in an effort to curb chinook salmon bycatch.

The US Forest Service believes fish populations in Redoubt Lake near Sitka survived last month’s devastating landslide unharmed.

After a week-long respite, Pavlof Volcano on the Alaska Peninsula has sent up another ash plume.

Saturday was National Trails Day and Juneau celebrated the annual event with a volunteer day at the Outer Point Trail.

Only a few years ago, even large commercial vessels wouldn’t take on the ice-bound Northwest Passage linking the Atlantic and Pacific via the Canadian north — but climate change has changed all that.

The ice jam that is causing devastating flooding in the Yukon River community of Galena is slowly starting to break up.

Recent black bear activity in the Auke Bay bypass area near Auke Rec has prompted Fish and Game to warn people to beware of the bear family frequenting that location. Area Management Biologist Ryan Scott says it’s causing problems. “We’ve got a pretty regular family of bears – a female with three cubs – that…