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01/22/21 10:49 AM
Trident Seafoods to close Alaska plant for three weeks after COVID-19 outbreak
Seattle-based Trident Seafoods is shutting down its largest Alaska seafood plant for three weeks after a COVID-19 outbreak, a difficult decision that points to a renewed assault by the coronavirus on the ranks of workers in a key part of…

01/19/21 12:19 PM
Coronavirus cases detected at Alaska seafood plant owned by Seattle-based Trident Seafoods
Seattle-based Trident Seafoods reports that four workers at the company's Akutan, Alaska, seafood plant have tested positive for coronavirus, including one who had difficulty breathing and had to be evacuated by air to a hospital in Anchorage.

01/18/21 10:13 AM
Joint Army-Air Force base in Anchorage bans on-post alcohol sales after 10 p.m.
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska has banned the sale of alcohol on the installation between the hours of 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. in an attempt to reduce consumption and "related harms" such as suicide.

01/11/21 12:55 PM
Petit wins fourth consecutive Copper Basin 300
This is the fourth year in a row that Petit has won the race. He was followed by Gunnar Johnson in second place and Ulsom in third.

01/08/21 11:20 AM
Trump signs Young Fishermen's Development Act into law
President Donald Trump signed into law on Tuesday an act created to help young fishermen break into an industry that has seen increased barriers to entry and an aging workforce.

01/08/21 10:29 AM
14 passengers might be banned after no-mask, rowdy flight from DC to Seattle, Alaska Airlines says
SEATTLE — At least 14 people could be placed on Alaska Airlines' banned passengers list after they were rowdy, argumentative and refused to wear masks on a flight from Dulles International Airport to Seattle, the airline said.

01/06/21 01:22 PM
New Arctic strategy calls for more Navy activity in the region as competition from Russia, China increases
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy released its strategy Tuesday on how the service plans to become more active in the Arctic as the region opens up to more economic and military competition from Russia and China.

01/06/21 09:00 AM
Still no date for Bowe murder trial
Court officials on Monday deferred setting a trial date for Matthew Bowe, who was charged in the 2016 fatal shooting of a man on a fishing vessel in Kodiak’s St. Herman Harbor.

01/06/21 09:00 AM
Statewide evictions are down during pandemic
Since March, there has been a patchwork of rules around eviction.

01/06/21 09:00 AM
United States' only heavy icebreaker arrives in Dutch Harbor
The Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star, the United States’ only heavy icebreaker, arrived in Dutch Harbor on Tuesday for a logistics stop. It’s the first time the ship has docked in Dutch Harbor since 2013.

01/05/21 05:00 AM
Federal judge could rule today on request to halt oil leasing in Arctic refuge
It’s a major moment in a 40-year fight over whether to drill for oil in the northernmost slice of the refuge, called the coastal plain.

01/04/21 10:45 AM
North Pacific fishing crews on edge about what they'll find this month, after a tough 2020 of small fish and COVID-19
Skipper Kevin Ganley spent most of the summer and fall pulling a massive trawl net through the Bering Sea in a long slow search for pollock, a staple of McDonald's fish sandwiches. The fish proved very hard to find.

12/30/20 09:00 AM
Daquilanea, who died from complications related to COVID-19, was a legend in the seafood industry
Benny Daquilanea was a pillar of Kodiak’s seafood processing industry and Filipino community. On Dec. 18, at the age of 73, he died from complications related to COVID-19.

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