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Southeast Alaskans Respond to Report Posted & Edited By MARY KAUFFMAN - According to British Columbia and Alaska's Bilateral Working Group, the four-year effort between B.C. and Alaska to examine water quality in the Stikine, Taku, and Unuk transboundary watersheds brought together government agencies, Indigenous Nations, industry, and the public to ensure the environmental, cultural, and economic values of these rivers are protected. "This program has been an extraordinary partnership of many dedicated and knowledgeable people, and is a great example of what can be achieved when we work ...

Ultra-local community newspapers in regional WA thriving despite print's downward trend SunSunday 7 MarMarch 2021 at 5:57am Despite the demise of print and regional news, some hyper-local papers in country towns are thriving. ( Share Print text only Cancel The prediction that small country newspapers will soon vanish forever does not seem to be ringing true in some regional towns. Key points: Readers say they appreciate the local content that focuses on their own communities Publishers believe the papers have a future because they report local news that other platforms don't cover While the s...

U.S. Congress 2019-2020: Bills Introduced (Over 5,000 in the House and over 3,000 in the Senate) Fish Factor:Alaskans Prepare for Poor to Average Salmon Runs By LAINE WELCH - Alaskans are preparing for another salmon season of poor to average runs to most regions. The big exception once again is at Bristol Bay where another massive return of more than 51 million sockeyes is expected. Managers predict that surge will produce a harvest of over 36 million reds to fishermen. Bristol Bay is home to the largest wild sockeye salmon run in the world and typically accounts for 42% of the world’s so...

Drency and Lillian Dudley, December 04, 1953 Photo courtesy JUDY ZENGE If you ask most people why the field is named after Drency Dudley, they will say it is because Dudley, a local civic leader from the 1940s to the 1960s, owned the land that became Dudley Field, which is the sports area adjacent to Ketchikan High School. Not surprisingly, that common belief is not true. While Dudley was a leader in promoting local youth sports and led the Lions Club to build the field on Jackson Street between Fifth and Seventh avenues in the mid-1950s, the land actually belonged to several private propert...

(Drawn by Capt Lisiansky, engraved by I. Clark,via Wikicommons)   Southeast Alaska: Archaeologists Identify Famed Fort Where Indigenous Tlingits Fought Russian Forces By MEGAN GANNON - For thousands of years, the Tlingit people made their home in the islands of Southeast Alaska among other indigenous peoples, including the Haida, but at the turn of the 19th century, they came into contact with a group that would threaten their relationship with the land: Russian traders seeking to establish a footprint on the North American continent....