A Coast Guard helicopter crew out of Sitka hoisted two hikers from near Lituya Bay after one was injured and needed immediate medical care.
Environment
How Gustavus’ spruce tips get into Juneau’s ice cream and booze
Each spring, about 50 pickers young and old get paid a few bucks a pound to collect spruce tips during a short harvest window in small town Gustavus.
Gardentalk — Trim a little now for a bigger harvest later
Prune each tomato or cucumber plant’s extra side shoots so it can put more energy into growing more fruit. Better ventilation and airflow around the plants also limits mold and mildew infections.
After accidents, watchdog renews call for tougher training for new oil tanker escorts in Prince William Sound
Following two minor accidents, a citizens’ watchdog group is asking the state’s top environmental regulator to require tougher training for new oil spill response crews in Prince William Sound.
Cremator cited for attracting bears with dead pets
Pet cremator Mike Dzuiba said the deceased animals were in a shelter at his home where he temporarily kept them before moving them to his shop for cremation.
Beavers are moving into the Arctic — you can see it from space
“If they were moving out of the Arctic, then you’d see a lot of ponds draining… But that’s not what we saw, we saw a lot of new ponds forming.”
State’s wildfire season ‘largely uneventful,’ according to officials
The only structures that have burned in Alaska’s wildfire season this summer are a shed and an outhouse.
Are great white sharks sinking their teeth into Bering Sea seals?
In the past three years or so, Brandon Ahmasuk says something strange has been opening its jaws to marine mammals in the Bering Sea.
When fishing’s a bust, good attitudes can take you far
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?
Spruce beetles take flight in search of new host trees
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.