China says Dunleavy’s trip “sends a very wrong signal to the ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist forces.”
Nathaniel Herz, Northern Journal
Above the Yukon River, on Native land, Hilcorp is set to drill for oil this summer
Hilcorp has signed oil leases with Doyon, the Indigenous-owned corporation for Interior Alaska. But there’s intense opposition from local tribes.
Big fight looms at Board of Fish meeting over Prince William Sound trawl bycatch
A new bycatch fight has erupted over a small pollock fishery not far from urban Alaska, in the waters of Prince William Sound, east of Anchorage.
What happened to those king salmon caught as bycatch?
Northern Journal last week published a story on how Kodiak-based pollock trawlers unintentionally caught 2,000 king salmon — forcing the closure of a major Gulf of Alaska fishery. Afterward, a number of readers responded with similar questions: What happened to those salmon? Were they sold? Donated? Thrown back into the water? The short answer, according to a…
Peter Pan creditors, investors feud over sale of Alaska seafood company assets to May
An array of businesses, fishing companies and investors are objecting to a pending proposal to sell the assets of a struggling Alaska seafood company to Rodger May.
Alaska’s embattled economic development agency signs contracts with seven law firms
AIDEA has long used outside attorneys. What’s new is selecting firms in advance, which the agency’s leader says allows work to happen more quickly than going through the state’s procurement process each time an issue comes up.