State starts new wolf-killing campaign

Source: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

FAIRBANKS — With a fresh blanket of snow, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game took to airplanes and helicopters Tuesday to track and shoot wolves in the upper Yukon-Tanana region near Tok. Personnel killed only one wolf on Tuesday but were back in the air Wednesday scouting for more wolves as part of an aggressive predator control plan.

03/18/10 - 7:38 am

Anchorage mayor wants to end emissions tests

Source: Anchorage Daily News

Mayor Dan Sullivan on Wednesday said he plans to resurrect efforts to kill the city's vehicle emissions testing program. The program, which has come under fire before, is an unnecessary burden on taxpayers, who spend an estimated $9 million a year on tests and related repairs to ensure Anchorage is in compliance with federal air quality standards, Sullivan said.

03/18/10 - 7:36 am

Warm weather brings relief to mushers

Source: Alaska Dispatch

NULATO -- As the beer-splashed celebration of Lance Mackey's unprecedented four-in-a-row Iditarod victory began off to the northwest along the Bering Sea coast in Nome on Tuesday, a simpler, more primordial celebration of a different sort was underway among the mushers still struggling here along the Yukon River. They were thanking the gods, the spirits and good luck that the life-threatening cold that has hunkered over the Alaska Interior for most of this year's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race was finally relenting.

03/18/10 - 7:35 am

Kenai board might support drift-only stretch

Source: Peninsula Clarion

The advisory board overseeing the Kenai River is considering whether to recommend preserving a popular stretch of the lower river for drift fishing, or dragging. The Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board's River Use Committee introduced a resolution that would actively encourage anglers to drift Eagle Rock, a stretch of river between miles 12 and 10.5.

03/17/10 - 8:43 am

Mackey piles on the records

Source: Alaska Dispatch

Whatever his strategy, or no strategy -- Lance Mackey nimbly goes with the flow and relies on his hard-won trail savvy to make a lot of it up as he goes along -- Lance and his team have done it again. Won another Iditarod, broken another record, given his fans another triumphant year's worth of bragging rights.

03/17/10 - 8:40 am