One Southeast Alaska lawmaker has a proposal to offer a state flood insurance alternative that may include coverage for both floods and some landslides. State Sen. Bert Stedman, R-Sitka ...

We’ve only mapped about 25 percent of the sea floor, but a recent push by NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite to shine a light into that darkness has been illuminating ...

Jan. 7, 2025 — A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems include a moon that is a large ...

Two decades ago, as thousands of vacationers scattered across the sunlit shores of Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka on Christmas getaways, a mighty force rattled the depths of the ocean floor ...

Southeast Alaska’s next commercial golden king crab and Tanner crab fisheries will open on Feb. 17. The Tanner crab population is on a slight decline, whereas golden king crab is on track for an ...

The first feature-length film produced by the iconic king of pop cinema, Roger Corman, Monster From the Ocean Floor, inspired by a Los Angeles Times story Corman read about a one-man submarine ...

The ocean floor opened at least 1,200 kilometers (750 ... an arc of intense seismic activity stretching from Japan through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin. A total of 226,408 people ...

Rural schools, mostly in Southeast Alaska, are facing a major funding shortfall this year after the U.S. House of Representatives failed to reauthorize a bill aimed at funding communities ...

The source was 30 km below the ocean floor, in the Sunda trench ... tsunamis have occurred in the past — 1960 Chile and 1964 Alaska, for example — the two 21st century events taught us ...

If you prefer halibut or just want to get out on the ocean, the best time for this ... it's not guaranteed. As southeast Alaska typically has more precipitation and clouds since it's a temperate ...

God Bless America that At Alaska Watchman we definitely have certain beliefs and concerns, which guide what we find newsworthy and how we go about reporting. In particular, we believe that America’s ...