BBNA Wildfire Exposure and Risk
A community-informed wildfire mapping tool is now available, offering critical insights as the community faces increasingly severe fire seasons.
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Bears are awake from hibernation, and a local wildlife expert shares tips to keep your trash—and your neighbors—safe this season.
Margaret Sutherland
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KDLG
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With council members split and absent, the city’s appropriation to the school district defaults to the requested amount amid budget shortfalls and education cuts. -
The Dillingham based nonprofit, known for running community events like Beaver Round-Up, cites burnout and social media harassment as reasons for dissolving -
Roughly 60 Dillingham residents gathered in downtown Dillingham to participate in the international day of action. -
After a poor harvest due to weather conditions, Biologist John Landsiedel says reporting harvests is key to future hunting opportunities and sound wildlife management. -
The decision comes less than two weeks after a court struck down the original predator control regulation, citing constitutional and public process violations. -
The quake, centered east of Egegik, was the strongest in the area in over a decade. Scientists say it was likely caused by normal fault movement, but volcanic activity is being monitored. -
UAF-led exercises provide hands-on training for local fire departments -
The department received 2,000 smoke detectors from the state and will install them in homes to reduce the risk of fatal residential fires. -
Unpacking cannery life: Author Mary Dinon shares nearly 100 years of cannery history on the Nushagak“The Winter Watchman's Daughter: Memoirs of Life on the Nushagak” tells the story of Bristol Bay canneries as seen through Dinons ancestors. -
Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation says the cuts follow the end of COVID-19 funding. Nurses say they weren't informed the pay was COVID-19 related or temporary.
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Education
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Politics
- Bristol Bay Representative Bryce Edgmon re-elected Alaska’s Speaker of the House, focusing on rural and statewide challenges
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- Alaska’s Legislature votes to keep the Wood-Tikchik State Park Management Council
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KDLG
Bristol Bay Field Notes is your source for an eclectic blend of topics relating to the great outdoors of southwest Alaska. Its goal is to educate, inform, and entertain.
Brian Venua
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A place for timely updates and lively conversation about the goings-on in Bristol Bay. If you have something you'd like to share, let us know! Call 907-842-2200 or email news@kdlg.org.
Brian Venua
Bristol Bay Obituaries is a place for people to remember family members and loved ones who have died. This is a community page; KDLG staff don’t edit submissions. Email submissions and photos to obituary@kdlg.org
Fisheries Headlines
- Silver Bay Seafoods set to acquire OBI Seafoods processing plants in partnership with Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation
- Bristol Maps app changes navigation for fishermen
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- Peter Pan owner Rodger May bids on some of company's assets
