U.S. Indigenous groups began to seek rights in B.C. after a 2021 Supreme Court decision, known as Desautel, in which Canada’s top court found that the Lakes Tribe in eastern Washington State ...

It showed, in 2021, more than 650,000 Canadian-origin sockeye salmon were caught in the waters of southeast Alaska. That is six times the 110,000 sockeye B.C. commercial fishers caught last year.

Alaska’s Southeast commercial salmon troll fleet is the target of a federal lawsuit that alleges the fishery threatens the chinook salmon food stock of endangered orca whales off the coast of ...

The king salmon troll fishery in Southeast Alaska remains tangled in a net of legal proceedings that threatens the livelihood of this summer’s season. The season is scheduled to begin July 1 ...

A U.S. District Court judge in Washington state agreed with the group, ruling in May 2023 that the biological opinion — a document that underpins fishing rules — was inadequate.

Alaska Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan are throwing their support behind the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s move ...

Communities in southeast Alaska have long co-existed with landslide ... Washington, 10 years ago. ... State and federal agencies hope to see more high-elevation weather stations installed in the ...

Kodiak man sentenced to one year in prison over illegal transport of Alaska crab to Washington The longtime commercial fisher pleaded guilty to leading an out-of-state delivery of Southeast Alaska ...

A Washington state man died while exploring an abandoned mine on Prince of Wales Island earlier this month, leading to an extended recovery effort.. Fifty-year-old Devin Albert was visiting his ...