The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and under siege from a contagious disease known as the “strangling angel” for the way it suffocated chi

Earlier this month, commercial snow crabs started hitting Unalaska’s docks again for the first time in nearly three years.

The Witherspoon is the first of three Fast Response Cutters (FRCs) scheduled to be homeported at Coast Guard Base Kodiak and is now the fourth FRC currently based in Alaska. While these ships will be homeported in Kodiak, they will operate throughout the 17th Coast Guard District to include the U.S. Arctic, Gulf of Alaska, and Bering Sea.

The Bering Sea snow crab fishery is open for the first time in two years, but the Trident Seafoods processing facility in St. Paul isn’t taking any crab.

The US Coast Guard (USCG) acknowledged the arrival of a new Fast Response Cutter (FRC) in Kodiak, Alaska, on 29 January, a week after it confirmed it was

Alaska’s “A” pollock season kicked off on 20 January, and the Alaska Pollock Fishery Alliance (APFA) is calling it a high stakes season for the economy of the communities it supports.

A sweeping executive order signed by President Donald Trump during the first hours of his second term aims to boost Alaska’s natural resource industry by reversing environmental protections that limit oil and gas extraction, logging, and other development projects across the state.

The crew of Coast Guard Cutter John Witherspoon (WPC 1158) arrived at the cutter’s new homeport in Kodiak, Tuesday.The cutter

Drilling in the Arctic and Alaska is a high-risk endeavor, involving decades of work and billions of dollars of investment

An executive order signed by President Donald Trump in the first hours of his second term reversed Biden administration orders that restricted oil and gas development in Alaska.