In 2021, Bering Sea pollock trawlers caught 546,043 chum salmon as bycatch, about 10% of which was headed to western Alaska, where subsistence communities depend on them for survival. It was the ...

The decision is a defeat for Tanana Chiefs Conference and the Association of Village Council Presidents, which challenged ...

Mansfield native and Iditarod Trail Sled Dog racer Matthew Failor crossed frozen sea ice Thursday night to reach the Koyuk ...

Bering Sea fishermen have harvested roughly 60 percent of this year’s total allowable harvest of snow crabs. But there’s limited processing capacity for the catch. Fishermen have unloaded ...

Arctic sea ice growth was slow in February, leaving extent at record-low levels for the end of the month. In the Antarctic, ...

Forgive Matthew Failor if he wishes to never again mush along the Yukon River in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

Poking holes in the sea floor that used to be part of the Bering Land Bridge ... bridge between the grasslands of Siberia and ice age Alaska. Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska ...

Poking holes in the sea ... Bering Land Bridge was all a cold, arid, grassland, but we found a lot of woody plants (in our cores),” said Sarah Fowell, a geology professor at the University of ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Federal fishery managers took steps on Tuesday to impose new rules to prevent Alaska chum salmon from being scooped into nets used to catch Bering Sea pollock, an ...

The crash of the 9-passenger Cessna Caravan on the sea ice of Norton Sound on ... over the Potomac River killed 67. The Bering Air crash, one of Alaska’s deadliest in recent decades, was the ...

On February 6 a commuter flight crashed on Alaska sea ice, killing all 10 aboard ... “A mile runway will take you anywhere.” Last week, the Bering Air single-engine turboprop that was part ...

Editor’s note: This story will be updated as the mushers advance in the 2025 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Check back for ...