Alaska is packed to the gills with amazing outdoor destinations, but this small town is one of the best thanks to several ...

The joint effort, which was months in the making, promotes a unified approach to addressing regional tribal concerns while ...

The Eskay Creek project is one of several prospective mines near the British Columbia-Alaska border, where the government and ...

Southeast Alaska’s summer season for Dungeness crab was worth about $10 million less than last year. The shortfall was due to a combination of a much lower harvest and a smaller price per pound. State ...

The first time I cruised from Sitka to Juneau was aboard an Alaska Marine Highway System ferry. I was flying to Juneau on Alaska Airlines but was diverted to Sitka due to weather. After arriving at ...

A 45.8-pound king salmon sits on ice during Petersburg’s salmon derby in 2015. (Joe Viechnicki/KFSK) Should Southeast Alaska have a hatchery-only king salmon sports fishery? Researchers recently tried ...

The king salmon troll fishery in Southeast Alaska is again scheduled to begin July 1 following a federal court decision Wednesday allowing for the season to go forward, reversing the slated closure of ...

Tongass National Forest covers more than 80% of southeast Alaska. Tongass National Forest stretches across nearly 17 million acres of land in southeast Alaska and is home to a lush vibrant ecosystem.

Wild salmon. Clean water. Clean air. Carbon storage. Climate change mitigation. Tourism, commercial fisheries — and billions of dollars in economic benefit. Since 2018, the Alaska Sustainability ...

Southeast Alaska is home to more than 850 species of native trees, shrubs and wildflowers. When you count them up, it’s more than half of all the plant species in Alaska, growing in just 6% of the ...

Jun. 14—NORTHERN LYNN CANAL — On a tiny island on the north end of the Inside Passage, carpenters and volunteers are glimpsing into Alaska's past. From a distance, Eldred Rock Lighthouse has long ...

Southeast Alaska is known as the Panhandle: It's a long, narrow strip of mainland coastline, plus 1,000 islands and the braided waterways that surround them. In most places, there are no roads ...