Harold Okitkun counted 18 dead seals north of Kotlik — a number he says he’s never seen or heard of other people in the village seeing.
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Why Alaska fishers are mailing corks to Murkowski
Bristol Bay fishers who oppose the Pebble Mine are adding an unusual task to their preseason chores: They’re writing messages on cork floats and mailing them to Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
From NYC to Sitka, this Alaskan is taking on nuclear disarmament
Juneau resident Shelby Surdyk recently attended a nuclear nonproliferation conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York. For next year, she’s helping to organize a youth conference in Sitka.
Goat yoga? In Fairbanks, there’s a new animal to flow with: Reindeer.
“You’ll see the reindeer getting into these amazing poses,” said Jane Atkinson, owner of Running Reindeer Ranch. “And it’s like wow…. Look at this little yoga move that they do!”
Will a new ‘community policing’ strategy make a dent in Anchorage’s crime?
After years of expanding its ranks, the Anchorage Police Department is implementing a patrol strategy based on putting officers in the same neighborhoods every day. Is it working?
AG Barr says ‘everything is on the table’ to solve Alaska’s public safety crisis
The U.S. Attorney General’s security detail outnumbered the number of village public safety officers in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta — a region roughly the size of Oregon.