traditional hunting practices for Indigenous communities Fishermen cast their lines while ice fishing on Lake conditions thinner and less predictable for those who fish, hunt and recreate on frozen lakes, rivers Holes for ice fishing are made on the frozen Lake Simcoe in the Innisfil area north of Toronto, Wednesday (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag) Globally, lakes are losing some 17 days of ice cover per century, at a People ice fish on a frozen Lake Elmore, March 3, 2024, in Elmore, Vt.

its authority by opening once-protected areas to development Surface pools on the edge of West Long Lake in the Teshekpuk Lake Special Use Area of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska are seen in this The Teshekpuk Lake area is important to subsistence harvests and had been protected from development food-gatherers. parts of the lake itself.

some details — such as the specific accusations against the tribal leader and the name of the person making Those incidents offer useful examples of what makes news "reportable" by general media industry standards That message by a public official – much like the mayor’s comment about the ICE rumors in the example above — provided sufficient verification to make the matter reportable. vs. fake photos).

The results challenge the idea that dogs make people safer in bear country and they have me rethinking “If you think a house pet is likely going to be your bear, not only detector but deterrent, you might For thousands of years, wolves competed with bears for food, killed cubs and even kicked bruins off carcasses If you do take your dog, consider a leash. “It’s not just dogs and bears,” Smith said. And they can make things worse as often as they make things better.

counselors in Virginia who were represented by the Founding Freedoms Law Center, an organization that takes

cases with extreme delay are outliers compared to the vast majority of criminal cases and the time it takes said with focused efforts, and the legislature’s approved raises for state attorneys, the courts are making all requests to be made on the record or documented in writing, and judges are given guidelines for making work with the prosecution and the defense agencies so that we can all keep cutting down the time it takes Carney noted criminal cases make up roughly 30% of all cases in state courts, and the 70% that are civil

A trio of skaters clear the ice on Twin Lakes on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025. on Friday based an assessment conducted on Wednesday by the Nordic Ski Club on the west side of the lake In this condition the Lake is not ready for Grooming by the Nordic Ski Club." Sunday at the Mendenhall Glacier Campground. A few people wander out on the ice of Mendenhall Lake on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025.

Department of Transportation and Public Facilities) By Larry Persily Wrangell Sentinel The state is taking shifted the leftover planning money to a shorter road as a better idea than a longer road, as if that makes But don’t take Haines or Skagway’s word for it, much of the Alaska Marine Highway Operations Board, which

“So everywhere we go, we have people that have seen something like this before.” “It just seemed like such unique work that not a lot of people in the world get to do. Angel Dees said she loves the outdoors and went paddleboarding and saw the Mendenhall Glacier during “I like Juneau a lot,” Underwood said as the ship passed Douglas Island. said the Coast Guard also possesses 21 vessels conducting domestic icebreaking missions on the Great Lakes

In those days you could be a nobody volunteer from out of state, like me, and invite the governor and

The House passed a bill Tuesday that would make daylight saving time permanent. “Millions of Americans will wake up during the winter months in complete darkness with the sun not rising they had to choose one option for the entire country to use, more than half of adults — 56% — prefer making The Senate passed a bill four years ago to make daylight saving time permanent, but it stalled in the

U.S. or Iran to charge fees would violate global norms on freedom of navigation and raise tensions, likely