Southeast Alaska commercial trollers have their first summer opening for king salmon July 1st. Managers are hoping the fleet will catch around 122-thousand wild stock kings, managed under the Pacific Salmon Treaty between the U.S. and Canada, along with several thousand more Alaska hatchery kings.
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A road on Kupreanof Island between Kake and Petersburg is now on hold because of Alaska’s budget crisis. Among his announcements of budget vetoes Wednesday morning, Governor Bill Walker said the state would be pausing eight highway road projects around Alaska. The projects are state-funded and they include a proposed road link across the northern side of Kupreanof Island.
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Gov. Bill Walker cut Permanent Fund dividends today to $1,000 per person, about half of the projected amount.
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A Petersburg man arrested earlier this year on a drug charge has been indicted by a grand jury on two federal counts for child pornography.
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The U.S. Forest Service is a step closer to choosing a route for a proposed electrical transmission line to the Southeast Alaska community of Kake. The agency June 24th released a draft decision on the Kake Petersburg Intertie. Once it’s finalized, the environmental review could authorize the construction of a 60-mile long power line across Tongass National Forest land on Kupreanof Island.
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