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This oil platform stopped pumping 30 years ago. Alaska still won’t make the owner tear it down.
Removing all the offshore oil infrastructure from Cook Inlet could cost $1 billion. But some platforms have sat idle for decades, as inspectors say…
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April 2024

Northern Journal goes multi-platform
Introducing the Northern Journal podcast.
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City spending standoff threatens Cook Inlet access for Anchorage boat launch users
The director of Anchorage's city-owned cargo port says maintaining the boat launch is a money-losing operation that his agency won't continue. No one…
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In Donlin lawsuit, Murkowski, Sullivan and Peltola come to mining project's defense
Alaska's congressional delegation, in documents filed in federal court late Tuesday, called the proposed Donlin mine one of the state's “most important…
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Alaska Senate proposes $7.5 million aid package for struggling fish processors
The program, if approved, would target smaller companies than those that won a share of more than $100 million in salmon and pollock purchases by the…
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Western Alaska tribes, outraged by bycatch, turn up the heat on fishery managers and trawlers
The years-long debate is taking on increasing urgency, as subsistence harvesting bans continue and the policy responses under consideration threaten to…
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Troubled state-backed seafood company says it will lease out two plants, and could sell its assets
Peter Pan Seafoods said Thursday that another processing company would lease and operate two of its Alaska plants for the summer salmon season. But…
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March 2024

Alaska fishermen and processing plants are in limbo as a state-backed seafood company teeters
“We are all sort of on pins and needles,” said a local official in King Cove, where fishermen and elected leaders are waiting to learn the fate of Peter…
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Federal judge sides with Biden administration, rejects Alaska bids to expand Kuskokwim River salmon fishing
A federal judge has settled a dispute that began in 2021, when the Dunleavy administration tried to expand salmon fishing opportunities beyond those…
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A new nominee to the Bering Sea fisheries management council would tip its balance toward tribes and away from trawlers.
Washington Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee has advanced Becca Robbins Gisclair, an attorney and conservation advocate, for a seat currently held by Anne…
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An Alaska Olympian went to D.C. to testify on climate change. Then a senator dredged up four-year-old tweets.
Louisiana Republican U.S. Sen. John Kennedy subjected Anchorage cross-country skier Gus Schumacher to a pop quiz about climate science in an exchange…
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Alaska utility regulators work shorthanded as policymakers consider tighter qualifications
Alaska’s five-member public utility commission has a vacancy with no announced timeline for filling it. Meanwhile, some policymakers and advocates want…
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