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

There's no other experience on Earth quite like witnessing the northern lights. Also known as the aurora borealis, this spellbinding phenomenon – when brilliant hues of green, yellow, red and purple ...

The Alaska Board of Fisheries voted to reopen resident and nonresident sport fisheries for yelloweye rockfish.

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

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

During the 11th day of the Alaska Board of Fisheries’ 13-day Southeast Alaska finfish and shellfish regulatory meeting in Ketchikan on Friday, the seven-member Board held a town-hall-style committee s ...

Some of the commercial, hook-and-line troll fishery’s allocation of migratory chinook salmon will be reallocated to the nonresident/resident sport fishery following a 5-2 ruling by the Alaska Board of ...