Yakutat News

JUNEAU, ALASKA Fish as well as people are expected to benefit from another round of federal stimulus funding that's headed to Alaska.

The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities has exceeded its mid-June deadline to obligate at least half of the $176 million provided to the state under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the department announced Wednesday.

It was a beautiful weekend to be on the water and harvest rates improved for king salmon in the Juneau area, taking 31 rod hours to harvest a king last week.

Jim Thomas, a Tlingit formerly of Yakutat, was recently elected president of the Potlatch Fund, an American Indian/Alaska Native philanthropic foundation headquartered in Seattle, Wash.

Recent births at Bartlett Regional Hospital: * On May 14, 2009, a son, Leland Randel Black, weighing 5 pounds, 5 ounces, to Alexandra Leslie Crider and Randel Dale Black, of Yakutat.

Why travel to a frozen landscape, rather than bask in a tropical paradise? Why travel to a frozen landscape, rather than bask in a tropical paradise? For the uplifting feeling of being at the northernmost extremity of the globe, of having reached somewhere otherworldly.

Recent births at Bartlett Regional Hospital: * On May 5, 2009, a son, Isaac Kent Hill, weighing 8 pounds, 10 ounces, to Kendra B. and Trevor Tompeo Hill, of Hoonah.

King salmon have moved into local waters and are being caught at the traditional fishing spots.

This past week, I received a literally astounding report from Yakutat, Alaska's city manager, Skip Ryman, forwarded to me by Kerri Thoreson, concerning the rapid advancement of the Hubbard Glacier towards Gilbert Point near Yakutat at the astonishing rate of two meters per day! Skip gave me the Army Corp of Engineers special Web site for the ...

Federal fisheries managers have approved new restrictions on who will be allowed to fish for Pacific cod in the Gulf of Alaska, action likely to be in place for the 2011 season.

Recent births at Bartlett Regional Hospital: * On April 18, 2009, a daughter, Taylor Carol Renee Nelson, weighing 8 pounds, 2 ounces, to Jessica Shaee Williams, of Juneau.

Buoys mark a tidal energy farm built by Ocean Power Technologies. PORTLAND, OREGON Some coastal Alaska communities are looking at ocean energy to supplement or replace costly diesel-driven generators.

The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium Women's Health Program has announced the Spring 2009 schedule for the mobile mammogram program.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced Friday that the lingcod sport fishing seasons, bag and possession limits, annual limits and size limits have been established for the Northern Southeast Alaska and Yakutat areas.

The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities reminds motorists the studded tire season is about to end, and they should remove studded tires by the legal deadline.

Gov. Sarah Palin has appointed Joe Nelson, an administrator at the University of Alaska Southeast, to Juneau's open Senate seat.

Gov. Sarah Palin on Monday made a little known college administrator her second choice to fill a vacant Juneau Senate seat, again bucking Senate Democrats.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced the 2009 sport fishing bag and possession limits for king salmon in Southeast Alaska and Yakutat Wednesday.

A bumper run of pinks could provide a 20 percent boost to Alaska's total salmon catch this year to 175 million fish.

The University of Alaska Southeast is in line for a second National Science Foundation grant to help preserve Alaska Native Languages.