Glennallen News

The first king salmon of the season were caught by subsistence fishermen in Nenana on Tuesday, which means some kings should be poking their noses into Chena and Salcha soon.

Starting Monday, king salmon will be off limits in the Gulkana River. Citing the lowest count of king salmon in the river since biologists started counting fish seven years ago, the Department of Fish and Game this week issued an emergency order closing the Gulkana River to all king salmon fishing - even catch and release - starting on Monday.

Analytica, a large provider of drinking water and wastewater testing in Alaska, has a new service center in Wasilla at 1649 W. Parks Highway.

It's still early, but things are looking good for Chitina dip-netters. The first sonar counts of the season for Copper River salmon at Miles Lake were posted on Monday, and more than 3,500 salmon were reported past the sonar.

Alaska has just been relegated to the back burner where any natural gas pipeline to the Lower 48 is concerned.

Individuals who are suffering from substance abuse can find help at drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities throughout the State of Alaska.

The Alaska Department of Administration has released a report outlining living expenses by region for determining pay rates for state employees, but actual changes in paychecks would have to be done in consultation with unions and the Legislature.

The Department of Natural Resources is starting to revise two plans dealing with state land in the Susitna Valley, the Susitna Area Plan and the Susitna Forestry Guidelines.

There are many gas line and energy projects under consideration by the Legislature.

On behalf of the Alaska Gasline Port Authority I want to thank the Alaska Legislature for its overwhelming passage last July of the legislative intent language accompanying the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act legislation that supported the continuing efforts of the Port Authority in developing the All Alaska LNG Project.

Steady streams of white vapor rising from the summit of Mount Sanford, the eastern Alaska volcano that last spewed lava in the Pleistocene epoch some 100,000 years ago, have spurred area residents this week to report a pending eruption.

The following editorial first appeared in the Anchorage Daily News: Southcentral Alaska has seen years of deadlock over how best to replace the region's shrinking supply of cheap natural gas.

Gov. Sarah Palin has thrown her support behind a 24-inch "bullet" pipeline to bring natural gas from the North Slope to Southcentral Alaska.

Southcentral Alaska has seen years of deadlock over how best to replace the region's shrinking supply of cheap natural gas.

The state made sweeping changes this week to the way it divvies up moose and caribou among hunters in one of Alaska's most popular, easiest-to-access hunting areas.

Fairbanks is missing out on some highway funding in the federal stimulus package because of a glitch in the complex rules.

Sun, Feb 15, 2009 Several communities report feeling a 4.3 magnitude earthquake that struck Alaska's Prince William Sound region.

As expected from the grumblings of disappointed dip-netters last summer, the salmon harvest in the Copper River personal-use fishery at Chitina was the lowest in almost 20 years.

While driving her delivery route for the Peninsula Clarion, Maggie Taggart spotted what appeared to be a very large member of the cat family bounding across a field and over a snow berm along Feuding Lane in ...

Frustrated by inaction from the state Board of Fisheries, the Chitina Dipnetters Association is taking its case to court.