ABOARD THE ORACLE, North Pacific — Skipper Robert Hanson seeks halibut on a stretch of graveled sea bottom ripped by the powerful tides of the Aleutian Islands. There, he drops a mile of line carrying nearly 600 baited hooks.

The draft plan calls for lease sales in Cook Inlet and the Arctic, as well as the Bering Sea and other regions important to the fishing industry.

Halibut fishing is struggling. The flat fish, once a mainstay for Alaska fishers — and for American families — can now cost more than $30 a pound at the supermarket.

Officials with the National Guard told state legislators about the decision just days before a federal judge temporarily ordered an end to deployments in the nation’s capital.

Aaron C. Peterson works in the Alaska Department of Law natural resources section. U.S. Senators asked more questions of other nominees at the hearing.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A Kodiak, Alaska, fisher has been sentenced to a year in jail for illegally shipping thousands of pounds of Tanner crab, much of it infected with a parasitic disease, out of Alaska to Washington state, federal officials said.

For years, anyone who makes their living on the water in Alaska – or depends on what comes off those boats – has felt like they’re fighting with one hand tied behind their back. Sky-high fuel bills,

Conservation groups are suing over a program that authorizes killing brown and black bears as a way to help grow the size of a southwest Alaska caribou herd

Pilots are not perfect. They are human," U.S. District Court Judge Amy Baggio said. “They are people and all people need help sometimes."

At Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium on Saturday, Kenyon Sadiq and the Oregon Ducks (10-1) meet Jonah Coleman and the Washington Huskies (8-3) in a matchup between a pair of the brightest stars in college football, starting at 3:30 p.m. ET. The Ducks' game versus the Huskies will be airing on CBS.