A crewmember on the fishing vessel Progress wraps up the 2025 pollock season in Unalaska. (Theo Greenly / KUCB) The ...

On Wednesday, the Alaska House voted 26 to 14, to update the corporate income tax for companies doing business over the internet. The revenue measure is tied to pay for part of Ho ...

New research from the University of Alaska Fairbanks found microplastics in nearly all of the spotted seals’ stomachs examined in a recent study, published in the current issue of the peer-reviewed ...

A task force report produced several bills, but options for quick action are constrained by the state’s dire fiscal situation ...

Sen. Dan Sullivan says the Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvest Act, which he co-sponsored, relies on National Oceanic ...

The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation unanimously passed a seafood bill on April 30 to fight ...

The session concluded with a sense of urgency, but also with hope. Alaska’s working waterfronts may be under pressure, but ...

All of it is for export. Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she’s worried new U.S. tariffs will damage some of Alaska’s biggest industries, especially commercial fishing. “We send a lot of product to ...

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