By Sabine Poux–KDLL • Jan 15, 2021 A fisherman at the mouth of the Buskin River. (Photo by Lisa Hupp/USFWS) Alaska sport fish permit prices are slightly lower this year, after the Alaska Department of Fish and Game removed a 15-year surcharge. Fish and Game raised the price of permits in 2005 to pay off a $68 million bond debt. …

By Sabine Poux, KDLL – Soldotna – January 15, 2021 Cook Inlet oil platforms are visible from shore near Kenai, Alaska. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk) The federal government has released a draft environmental impact statement on an oil and gas lease sale in Cook Inlet, tentatively scheduled for late 2021. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is planning …

January 14, 2021 by Robyne, KUAC- Fairbanks Many businesses closed or reduced operations early on during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Abbey Collins/Alaska Public Media) Alaska businesses will soon be able to apply for a second round of Paycheck Protection Program loans. The second COVID-19 relief and spending package passed by Congress in December includes $284 billion more for businesses hurt by the pandemic. …

By ISABELLE ROSS • January 13, 2021 One of the largest seafood companies in the world has sold Peter Pan Seafoods to three private equity groups. The sale comes after years of struggle for the seafood processor, which has a big footprint in Alaska. But the new owners are optimistic. The Peter Pan Seafoods plant in Dillingham.PHOTO: PETER PAN SEAFOODS. Peter Pan, …

By Casey Grove, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage–January 13, 2021 The Dec. 31, 2020 “bomb” cyclone over Shemya Island. (Earth.nullschool.net) A massive storm way out in the Aleutian Islands at the end of the year set a record for the lowest atmospheric pressure ever recorded in the North Pacific… but you’ve probably never heard of it. That’s because the 60-foot …

In Juneau, state and local officials are on edge but hopeful there won’t be local violence January 13, 2021 by Rashah McChesney, KTOO The Alaska State Capitol and Dimond Courthouse in downtown Juneau. (Tripp J Crouse/KTOO) State lawmakers in Juneau and local law enforcement are preparing for the possibility of violence after the FBI warned of potential armed protests in …

by Sabine Poux–KDLL District O Sen. Peter Micciche prefiled SB 29 Friday. The 32nd legislative sessions starts next week. Soldotna Republican Sen. Peter Micciche is again moving to establish a buyback program for set-net permits in Cook Inlet. The program would reduce the number of commercial set-net fishermen on the east side of the inlet. Proponents of the bill, like …

By  Isabelle Ross, KDLG – Dillingham – January 12, 2021 The only person to star in St. Seraphim of Sarov’s Orthodox Church. Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. (Izzy Ross/KDLG) A small group of people sang through cloth masks. It’s slavii at St. Seraphim of Sarov’s Orthodox Church in Dillingham. At the front of the church, a boy spun a star decorated …

January 6, 2021 by Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO and Alaska Public Media Hearing the news of the violence in the U.S. Capitol reminded Kodiak Republican Sen. Gary Stevens, 79, of an experience he had as an army lieutenant in 1968 when his battalion was called into Washington, D.C., after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. “Watching TV today reminded me …

The following is a press release from the Kodiak Area Emergency Services Organization KODIAK, ALASKA, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 10, 2020 We have received information from the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services that there has been another positive test result for COVID-19 in Kodiak. Details about this case are pending; an update will be provided early next week. …