Author: Joe Viechnicki, KFSK

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council in December voted against tightening regulations on sport anglers who rent a boat to fish for halibut. It’s seen as a growing part of the sport fishing fleet in Southeast Alaska but has more liberal bag limits than clients who go out fishing with a guide.

Petersburg’s representative in the Alaska House of Representatives thinks this upcoming session already has a very different feel from last year’s.

A film company estimates it captured thousands of hours of footage with police departments in four Alaska locales earlier this year for a TV series called “Alaska PD” that premiers on January 1st.