Dan Joling
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Researchers: Tool used to detect polar bear dens ineffective
Polar bear researchers in Alaska say a tool used by the petroleum industry to detect the dens of females giving birth to cubs is often ineffective → Read More
Donald Trump Jr. receives permit to hunt grizzly bear in Alaska
The oldest son of President Donald Trump has received a permit to hunt and kill a grizzly bear in Alaska, officials said Monday. → Read More
Donald Trump Jr. receives permit to hunt Alaska grizzly bear
The oldest son of President Donald Trump has received a permit to hunt and kill a grizzly bear in Alaska, officials said Monday. → Read More
Donald Trump Jr. receives permit to hunt Alaska grizzly bear
The oldest son of President Donald Trump has received a permit to hunt and kill a grizzly bear in Alaska, officials said Monday. → Read More
Donald Trump Jr. receives permit to hunt Alaska grizzly bear
The oldest son of President Donald Trump has received a permit to hunt and kill a grizzly bear in Alaska, officials said Monday. → Read More
Donald Trump Jr. receives permit to hunt Alaska grizzly bear
The oldest son of President Donald Trump has received a permit to hunt and kill a grizzly bear in Alaska, officials said Monday. → Read More
Donald Trump Jr. receives permit to hunt Alaska grizzly bear
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The oldest son of President Donald Trump has received a permit to hunt and kill a grizzly bear in Alaska, officials said Monday. Donald Trump Jr. was granted the permit to hunt north and east of Nome later this year, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said. The Alaska governor has a limited number of "dignitary" licenses and game tags that he can hand out, Fish and… → Read More
Alaska needs broad review of aviation safety, officials say
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska needs a comprehensive review effort to improve aviation safety because its fatal and non-fatal accident rates are far higher than the national average, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday. The NTSB issued a safety recommendation to the Federal Aviation Administration calling for the formation of a group focused on safety to better review, rank… → Read More
Alaska needs broad review of aviation safety, officials say
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska needs a comprehensive review effort to improve aviation safety because its fatal and non-fatal accident rates are far higher than the national average, the National... → Read More
Groups give notice they will sue to protect beluga whales
Two environmental groups have given formal notice that they intended to sue the U.S. government over its failure to protect an endangered population of beluga whales in Alaska from problems related to oil and gas drilling → Read More
Survey: Alaska's Cook Inlet beluga whales continue decline
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The population of endangered beluga whales in Alaska's Cook Inlet continues to decline, federal marine mammal authorities announced Tuesday. A biennial survey... → Read More
Hoverboarding dentist convicted of Medicaid fraud in Alaska
An Alaska dentist, who gained notoriety after he was seen in a video riding a hoverboard and pulling teeth, was convicted of defrauding the Alaska Medicaid program → Read More
WATCH: Camera records moose trapping Alaska man in shed
An Alaska man carrying garbage to his shed had to take cover inside when a curious bull moose decided to join him. → Read More
Researchers tie massive Pacific seabird die-off to heat wave
Hundreds of thousands of common murres, a fast-flying seabird, died from starvation four winters ago in the North Pacific, and a new research paper attempts to explain why → Read More
Researchers tie massive Pacific seabird die-off to heat wave
The North Pacific seabirds can quickly cover hundreds of miles searching for schools of small forage fish. The die-off eventually killed an estimated 500,000 to 1 million murres from California to Alaska, eliminating 10-20% of the northeast Pacific population of the species. Seabird experts now believe → Read More
Aleutian volcano spews up ash cloud in two strong bursts
The Alaska Volcano Observatory says an Aleutian Islands volcano sent up an ash cloud twice Tuesday morning → Read More
Alaska island volcano erupts, sends ash cloud to Bering Sea
A brief eruption of a volcano in Alaska's Aleutian Islands has sent an ash cloud to heights of 25,000 feet → Read More
Alaska island volcano erupts, sends ash cloud to Bering Sea
A brief eruption of a volcano in Alaska's Aleutian Islands has sent an ash cloud to heights of 25,000 feet → Read More
Deserted 5-year-old takes toddler to neighbor in bitter cold
Authorities say a 5-year-old left alone with a toddler in a rural Alaska village carried the younger child half a mile to a neighbor's house in the bitter cold after the power went out → Read More
Coast Guard, Navy boats collide in Alaska; 9 injured
A U.S. Coast Guard vessel collided with a U.S. Navy boat, injuring nine people, including one critically, off Alaska's Kodiak Island. The accident occurred Wednesday evening in Women's Bay near Kodiak's Coast Guard base, said Lt. Comm. Scott McCann, a Coast Guard Alaska District spokesman in Juneau. A Coast Guard 38-foot (11.6-meter) special purpose training boat had just completed a helicopter… → Read More