Alaska

A nonprofit group plans a series of scientific panels to examine the potential impacts of developing a copper and gold prospect north of Lake Iliamna in the Bristol Bay watershed.

Trout Unlimited has enlisted nearly 50 restaurants in Seattle and Portland in its campaign against the proposed Pebble Mine.

This Saturday's South Anchorage Farmers Market will turn into the Great Salmon Grill-off, with visitors eating and voting. Trout Unlimited Alaska is hosting a Savor Bristol Bay event Saturday at the market.

An Alaskan bay bitterly contested by fishermen and miners has become the site of a landmark study on population dynamics — and the findings favor the fish.

A new study by two professors with the University of Washington looks at five decades of data from Bristol Bay salmon surveys and harvest records, as part of in-depth research into the bay's rich sockeye salmon fishery.

A last-minute line item for three-quarters of a million in a $3.1 billion capital budget is stirring up a ruckus between the usual suspects. At issue is a $750,000 reappropriation to the Legislative Council...

A last-minute line item for three-quarters of a million in a $3.1 billion capital budget is stirring up a ruckus between the usual suspects. At issue is a $750,000 reappropriation to the Legislative Council...

There are public relations challenges, and then there is the Pebble mine. It is nearly impossible to watch television or travel around Alaska without seeing an anti-Pebble mine message.

Some places deserve special protection based on their remoteness and remarkable qualities; the Koktuli River in Southwest Alaska is among these places. Unfortunately, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation seems to disagree.

An independent review of the proposed Pebble Mine may be in the works thanks to a last-minute funding request by Kodiak Rep. Alan Austerman. On Saturday, Austerman requested $750,000 for a third-party study in the state's capital budget.