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Alaska Dispatch News is running a live blog to track the president's travels in Western Alaska.

The Obama administration last week issued a statement indicating Alaska Congressman Don Young's rewrite of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery...

Here are a few notes to get your week started. • Halibut season opened at noon Saturday, and will remain open until Nov. 7. You longliners...

Here's the White House press release .

The White House yesterday issued this fact sheet on a raft of new executive actions on oceans.

President Obama has named his picks for the International Pacific Halibut Commission. They are Robert D. Alverson, James W. Balsiger and D...

Bet you've never heard of her. Here's a Washington Post story with details.

Acting Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank is leaving to become chancellor at the University of Wisconsin. Here's a statement from Pr...

A bunch of U.S. senators, including Alaskans Mark Begich and Lisa Murkowski, have sent a letter to President Obama urging emergency funding...

President Obama, in his State of the Union address tonight, proposed raising the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour. The federal minimum w...

President Obama today announced his intent to appoint David Benton, of Juneau, to the U.S. Arctic Research Commission . From the White Hou...

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, believes President Obama's proposal to move the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from the ...

Back in April we showed you a letter U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, sent to President Obama urging seafood industry protections in light ...

Here's a letter U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, sent today to President Obama requesting certain federal assistance in light of Japan...

It's not often, I'm sure, that the word "salmon" finds its way into a State of the Union address. Not to mention a salmon ...

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell, who is running for a new term, has done a lot of tough talking this year about that darned federal government. Her...

Sure enough, the federal government today nixed oil and gas lease sales in Bristol Bay, at least for the next seven years. Here's a memo...

The Obama administration tomorrow might nix planned oil and gas leasing in the federal waters of Bristol Bay, also known as the North Aleuti...

Judging from the bluster of this Gloucester Daily Times editorial , you'd think the Obama administration had snubbed the local favorite ...

Good fishery managers must be really hard to find. We know this because the Obama administration, now just 21 days away from finishing its f...