Near the end of its two-week meeting on Sunday, the Alaska Board of Fisheries considered a proposal to close off a small bay ...

A permitting system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more ...

For years, the Ketchikan Indian Community has argued that Ketchikan’s nonrural designation prevented tribal citizens from ...

The ice extent in January was down 498,000 square miles compared to the 1981 to 2010 average. That means the Arctic is now missing an area of ice six times the size of Wales.

The Alaska Board of Fisheries is meeting in Ketchikan to consider changes to Southeast Alaska’s fisheries. The state ...

The Alaska Board of Fisheries is meeting in Ketchikan to consider changes to Southeast Alaska ... like lowering the maximum ...

The cruise industry was already booming in Alaska, but some locals say its growth is putting a strain on the environment tourists come for.

Negotiations over state-managed groundfish harvest, including proposals to open up demersal shelf rockfish fishing, sped by on the third day of the Alaska Board of Fisheries’ Southeast Alaska/Yakutat ...

Podium for public testimony before the Alaska Board of Fisheries at their meeting at the Ted Ferry Civic Center in Ketchikan.

JUNEAU, Alaska - The U.S. Coast Guard reports rescuing two fishermen after their vessel capsized off Alaska on Wednesday afternoon. The agency’s command center said it originally received a distress ...

A number of the larger commercial fishing boats that call Newport’s Yaquina Bay their home headed out last week for the annual trek to Alaska’s Bering Sea. It can take eight to 10 days for them to ...