Semisopochnoi has been fairly active over the last year, although the has been fairly quiet since June 12. Due to the recent eruption, the Read More
Alert level raised following Semisopochnoi explosion
August 22, 2022
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Listicle: The Murkowski earmarks proposed for Alaska
August 02, 2022
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“Alaskans have asked for my help in addressing workforce shortages, food insecurity, and lack of housing. To support Anchorage’s police force, the Alaska State Troopers, and the readiness of our military. To enable the expansion of the port in Dutch Harbor, a significant study of the proposed
Murkowski, Sullivan Announce Over $116 Million in Infrastructure Funding for High-Speed Internet in Alaska
July 28, 2022
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Alaska has now received more than $2.1 billion from the IIJA, with billions more expected to flow to the state in the months and years ahead.
“In nearly every rural and remote community I visit, broadband and connectivity are not just topic of conversations, but top priorities for
Surprise $60 million investment for Pebble
July 28, 2022
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90K Alaska households are eligible for internet assistance - only 10K are taking advantage
July 21, 2022
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About 90,000 Alaska households are eligible for up to a $75-per-month broadband subsidy and $100 toward a device for online access, but only about 10,000 are taking advantage, according to the White House.
So the White House on Thursday had Vice President Kamala Harris tout a recently
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy signs bill increasing rural power subsidy
July 21, 2022
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Senate Bill 243, passed by the Alaska Legislature this spring, raises the maximum subsidy for the state’s
OPINION: Research and education help renewable energy efforts for rural Alaska
July 21, 2022
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As we continually look for better ways to serve Alaska and Alaskans, we have focused on actively involving communities and making our research results accessible to a larger audience. We are excited to share news about one of our products, an online non-credit MOOC (massive open online course)
Man missing after going out in a skiff on Lake Iliamna on Sunday
July 20, 2022
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Jeremy Davis and another man planned to travel across the lake from Igiugig to Newhalen.
Austin McDaniel, the information officer for the state Department of Public Safety, said a concerned Igiugig resident notified the Troopers that the men had left in the skiff around 9 p.m.
"That
Southwest Alaska wildfire sweeps through Pebble Mine site
July 07, 2022
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Almost 2.4 million acres have burned through Wednesday morning, according to the Alaska Interagency Coordination
Biologists puzzled at huge discrepancy between Port Moller Test Fishery data and actual run
July 07, 2022
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July
Compared to historic numbers, a four-day streak of low indices breaks from the pattern of large runs like this year’s 75-million-fish forecast. Usually, the test fishery’s indices run a week ahead of the Nushagak District. So it stands to reason to expect fishing to slow down this
Historic sailboat begins voyage to Naknek
July 07, 2022
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LaRece Egli, the director of the Bristol Bay Historical Society Museum in Naknek said almost immediately thereafter, sailing was made obsolete for the fishery.
“I think it’s literally down to 50 or 46 boats or something like that in 1954 and then they just disappear,” she said.
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COVID case count increases in Bristol Bay
July 04, 2022
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“Since Wednesday (June 22) of last week, we've identified 121 cases in-clinic,” she said.“In that timeframe, we did 591 tests – so about a 20% positivity rate that we're seeing right now. And those are just the ones we know of.”
That number doesn’t include folks who tested positive at home
Lime Complex June 29th Daily Update: Smoke continues to impact operations, firefighters implement protection measures ahead of Red Flag weather
June 29, 2022
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https://akfireinfo.com/2022/06/29/lime-complex-june-29th-daily-update/
Highlights: All unstaffed fires are
EPA extends comment period on watershed protections that would block Pebble Mine
June 29, 2022
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Representatives with the EPA visited Dillingham and Newhalen earlier this month to hear public testimony on the agency’s proposal to protect waters around the Pebble deposit. It was the first in-person public hearings since the start of the COVID pandemic.
Dozens of residents from around
Float plane carrying seven people crashed in Lake Iliamna on Saturday
June 28, 2022
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Troopers in Fairbanks received a report of the crash around 6:20 p.m. Residents reported that the plane was
EPA Announces Revised 404(c) Proposed Determination
June 26, 2022
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If finalized, EPA’s Section 404(c) determination would help protect the Bristol Bay watershed’s rivers, streams, and wetlands that support the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery and a subsistence-based way of life that has sustained Alaska Native communities for millennia.
Nominations for Assembly & School Board Open
June 06, 2022
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Lake and Peninsula Borough Assembly and School Board Nominations Open June 6, 2022.
Notice is hereby given that on October 4, 2022, the General Election of the Lake and Peninsula Borough will be held in accordance with AS 29.26.040, for the purpose of electing the following
Fire Danger in LPB
June 06, 2022
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FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
FIRE DANGER IN LAKE AND PENINSULA BOROUGH
June 6, 2022
Dry weather and dry grass have produced extreme fire danger and potential for wildfires in all of Lake and Peninsula Borough. Residents, visitors, and workers
There are too many pink salmon in the Pacific
June 03, 2022
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This story is available in full at The Pacific is overrun by pink salmon | Popular Science (popsci.com)Read More
13 Western Alaska tribal and fishing organizations ask Alaska Peninsula fishery to shut down to protect chum salmon
June 03, 2022
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Judge permits limited gillnet fishing for all Alaskans along Kuskokwim, for now
June 01, 2022
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A federal judge rebuffed a bid by the U.S. government to block Alaskans who aren’t “qualified subsistence users” from gillnet fishing on certain days along a 180-mile-long section of the Kuskokwim River within the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge.
U.S. District Judge Sandra Gleason on
Econ 919 - Divvying up Disaster Dollars
May 29, 2022
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Fishermen and their coastal communities had to fight hard for those disaster declarations. Now, they’re helping to decide how managers should split the funds, including $9.4 million for Cook Inlet fishermen. The money is to make up for the losses from the 2018 upper Cook Inlet set-net fisheries
Biden Administration Sues Alaska Over Opening of Fishing Areas Amid Shortages
May 28, 2022
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EPA Moves Once More to Protect Bristol Bay
May 25, 2022
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Fishing and environmental groups hope the Biden administration’s move will be fatal to the proposed Pebble Mine, and end more than 20 years of debate over protecting the world’s most productive sockeye salmon habitat from the effects of mining for gold, copper and other metals.
“The Bristol
The US has Spent More than $2 Billion on a Plan to Save Salmon. The Fish are Vanishing Anyway.
May 24, 2022
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May
CARSON, Wash. — The fish were on their way to be executed. One minute, they were swimming around a concrete pond. The next, they were being dumped onto a stainless steel table set on an incline. Hook-nosed and wide-eyed, they thrashed and thumped their way down the table toward an air-powered
Opinion: It's time for bold action to protect our fisheries
May 19, 2022
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Ocean acidification is projected to intensify in the coming decades, threatening the marine ecosystems that support our
A tasty tax benefit for processors
May 19, 2022
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The state previously had a tax credit for investments in equipment used to produce value-added salmon and herring products, but that credit expired after 2020.
Learning from Indigenous knowledge holders on the state and future of wild Pacific salmon
May 16, 2022
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Like my Nation, the Nisga'a Nation on the British Columbia North Coast, many cultures identify as Salmon People. We view salmon as relatives, and see care for them and
Yukon River closed to harvest of salmon except by Federally qualified subsistence users
May 11, 2022
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Federal public waters of the Yukon Northern Area include all navigable and non-navigable freshwaters located within and adjacent to the exterior boundaries of National Wildlife Refuges, National Parks and Preserves, and National Conservation Areas, as well as those segments of the National Wild
The federal government will manage the Yukon River salmon fishery where the river passes through federal lands
May 06, 2022
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Governor Dunleavy Demands Federal Recognition of State Owned Lands
April 26, 2022
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April 26, 2022 (Anchorage) — Today, Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy announced a lawsuit that asks the courts to recognize the State’s ownership to submerged lands within Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, an ownership granted at Statehood but not yet fully recognized by
Chasing "The Blob", The Aftermath of a Marine Eco-Monster
April 15, 2022
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A blob menaced the Gulf of Alaska in recent years, and the marine ecosystem has yet to fully recover. The Blob is what researchers called the warm water anomaly that persisted in the region from 2014 to 2016. The event was followed by several smaller warm water anomalies in subsequent years.
Five People Survive Plane Crash Near Iliamna
March 06, 2022
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All five survived the initial impact, and are receiving medical care at Anchorage area hospitals. One person is in serious condition, one is in fair condition, and three are in stable condition, troopers said in an update Sunday afternoon.
Around 1 p.m. on Saturday, troopers received notice
While Chignik fishermen wait on 2018 relief funds, some look beyond the fishery to survive
February 15, 2022
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While Chignik fishermen wait on 2018 relief funds, some look beyond the fishery to survive
February 14, 2022
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Development Permit for a New Store in Newhalen
February 01, 2022
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On February 1, 2022 the Planning Commission for the Lake and Peninsula Borough reviewed a development permit at an online meeting. The permit was from the Newhalen Tribal Council to build a store on an existing lot. Newhalen currently does not have a store and residents shop in Iliamna. Joanne
8.2 Earthquake
The State of Alaska deployed an interagency damage assessment team of borough and state officials to the Alaska Peninsula Monday following the magnitude 8.2