Three small businesses in Bristol Bay win $50,000 through competition April 1st 2:48 pm |
Brian Venua, KDLG News
The Bristol Bay Native Corporation has awarded a total of $50,000 to three small enterprises in the region through a business competition. This year s winners are Sugar and Spice Express in Chignik Lake and Perryville, and two businesses based in Dillingham; Little Alaskan Fish Company and Nick s Legacy.
The competition is called Path to Prosperity. It s an opportunity for small businesses in Bristol Bay to go through a kind of boot-camp where they work with experts to improve their operations, from finances to facility upgrades.
The secrets of Alaska sled dogs amazing endurance April 1st 3:07 pm |
Ned Rozell, University of Alaska
Mike Davis lives in Oklahoma, but he has traveled to Alaska many times to work with our greatest athletes.
Davis, an Oklahoma State University veterinarian and exercise physiologist has often traveled to Alaska for the start of the Iditarod. There, he has cheered on Aliy Zirkle, Martin Buser and other mushers who have over the years entrusted Davis to take blood and muscle samples from their dogs.
Davis s goal is to discover the magic within a sled dog that allows it to keep going and going. While we humans tend to fade after exercising just a few hours, sled dogs are somehow able to avoid that crash.
Federal order targets polar bear guides April 1st 3:09 pm |
Alex DeMarban, Anchorage Daily News
Polar bear guides in the northeast Alaska village of Kaktovik are upset by a last-minute order from the Trump administration that appears to halt polar bear viewing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge until studies on its effects are completed.
The guides are worried they ll undergo a second straight year of lost income, after the COVID-19 pandemic last year prevented most tourism across Alaska. However, the practical implications of the order are uncertain because President Joe Biden s administration could undo the order.
The three-page order, signed Jan. 15 by former Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, raises concerns presented by some village residents at past meetings about increased tourism, such as the heightened risk of bear and human conflicts and competition for seating on the small planes flying in and out of the community.