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  • Our salmon are vanishing — and the State of Alaska is letting it happen

    recovery: Yukon Chinook remain at record lows, chum returns again failed to meet escapement goals and food People in my region now rely on food aid in places where salmon once filled every smokehouse. Families are forced to choose between buying expensive store food — if they can afford it — or leaving

  • Sleepwalking into an American dictatorship

    Examples abound, whether with Hitler in Germany or with contemporary dictators like Orban in Hungary Ban unfavorable media from access to government resources and decision-making (e.g. ); use the FCC to censor through use of the licensure authority; constantly label critical news as “fake

  • Healthy exchange of ideas, snacks among Juneau’s legislators, constituents at annual holiday open house

    one it’s an opportunity to network with other people," she said in a hallway on the Capitol’s fifth floor "Why not make this a site where tech companies want to start off and everything like that," he said in We like to be in groups and when you have the masses saying an idea it's like a seed in the minds of And I think it's always good to have a discussion like that." Rep. All three legislators had tables with food outside their offices, with the nibbles tending more toward

  • When the most aggressive-seeming greenery has a softer side

    Like cousins, green with life. So I was surprised when I looked down at the forest floor of my new walking route on the trail system of Alaska’s largest city and felt like a stranger. on the river beach in Unalakleet, I am drawn to the plants, knowing that many are helpers, some are food Like at a dinner party. Or a backyard barbeque get-together.

  • Alaska Beacon state and legislative daybook for the week of Jan. 26, 2026

    This list is ripped from our notebooks, and it is likely to change over the course of the week. Monday, Jan. 26 through Friday, Jan. 30 Alaska Marine Science Symposium takes place in Anchorage Monday , Jan. 26 Morning: House/Senate floor sessions 1 p.m. – Local Boundary Commission meets to discuss cutting AIDEA is doing Wednesday, Jan. 28 Expected: State population estimate released Morning: House/Senate floor delegation town hall meeting at Mendenhall Valley Public Library Friday, Jan. 30 Morning: House/Senate floor

  • World doesn’t need another blast of hot air

    Like I said, generally not much in the news to lift my spirits, my hopes for a better place, or even But sometimes I run across a story in the news that distracts me from all that upsets me — and makes onto their kitchen counter, the two-pound Hedgehog can blow away whatever else you don’t want on your floors that collects on a counter, which I suppose is useful if you don’t mind blowing the water onto your floor Maybe it’s technology making our lives easier.

  • Thankful for a life-giving holiday feast

    siblings, Jules and Anna, both 22, who were helping their mother serve plates of traditional Thanksgiving food Michelle Carroll, left, waits for plates to be loaded with traditional Thanksgiving foods by Nancy DeCherney The turnout is larger than last year — mirroring an increase in demand for Thanksgiving food baskets morning — instead of being required to leave at the usual 6:45 a.m. closing time — until a shuttle to take More recently it moved to The Hanger on The Wharf , where prepared foods provided by local businesses

  • Tsunami expert shares tips for Southeast Alaska

    Communications also take place over the internet, cell phone alerts, local broadcast and weather radios “You don’t get a lead-up, like you do a big fall or winter storm coming in, and it’s just here,” he said Snider said for outer coastal communities, a tsunami would appear as an ocean flood, similar to a storm In the Inside Passage, he said it’s likely strong and unusual currents could push boats off their lines To give an example of what this would look like, Snider referred to the storm that caused a near-collision

  • An otter disaster: Wrangell seeks relief for Dungeness fishery decline

    are voracious eaters that must consume up to 30% of their body weight — that’s around 25 pounds of food the otters’ numbers have rebounded from near extinction in the 1900s, they’ve needed more and more food There is currently no shellfish-specific commercial fishing association in Southeast like there are for

  • Sitka area tops for deer abundance in Alaska

    “I feel like I’ve seen a lot of deer out there and feel like it’s good to see.”  mortality, and “there’s an extreme change in how many fawns they are going to have based on how much food She said the does can hold pregnancies when they don’t have enough food, and will have twins or triplets when food is plentiful. grew up in Wrangell, said she began hunting about 20 years ago to provide high-quality, affordable food

  • Camaraderie through competition; seven US Coast Guard crews vie in Buoy Tender Olympics

    You make a chain link.” First, the pin is heated with an oxy-acetylene torch. “It's not like the chain pull or the tug of war; It takes skill, patience, a little bit of everything “It takes a little bit of practice and finesse to be able to maneuver those buoys, keeping them at a Buoy tenders Anthony Petit, Aspen, Cypress, Elderberry, Elm, Fir, and Henry Blake attended this year’ just kind of get ideas from each one of the platforms: things that they do better, things that we'd like

  • Jirdes Winther Baxter, last survivor of 1925 Nome serum run, dies in Juneau at 101

    supporting her husband during his 15 years in office Jirdes Winther Baxter blows out the candles on her cake She said it was an occasion to celebrate “those who have helped make our state the most incredible place And then when she'd wake up and open her eyes she'd want to talk a little bit."

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