Seward

Volunteers at the Alaska SeaLife Center feed a milk and electrolyte mix to a beluga calf, rescued on Sept. 30 after being stranded in Trading Bay, by holding a tube to its lips (a method they’ve found works better than bottle-feeding) on Friday, Oct. 6 in Seward, Alaska. The calf is the first Cook Inlet beluga under human care. Activities in this picture have been authorized by NOAA’s Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program under the Marine Mammal Protection Act/Endangered Species Act

Stranded beluga calf recovering in Seward

A male beluga calf, estimated between two and four weeks old, became the first member of Cook Inlet’s endangered beluga population under human care after… Continue reading

Volunteers at the Alaska SeaLife Center feed a milk and electrolyte mix to a beluga calf, rescued on Sept. 30 after being stranded in Trading Bay, by holding a tube to its lips (a method they’ve found works better than bottle-feeding) on Friday, Oct. 6 in Seward, Alaska. The calf is the first Cook Inlet beluga under human care. Activities in this picture have been authorized by NOAA’s Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program under the Marine Mammal Protection Act/Endangered Species Act
Supplies and some Fourth of July accessories sit ready and waiting in a first aid tent at the base of Mount Marathon during the annual Mount Marathon Race on Tuesday, July 4, 2017 in Seward, Alaska. For the last four years, there has been a more official effort to provide first aid to runners on the mountain and at its base. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion)

Monitoring the mayhem: First aid volunteers safeguard Seward’s Mount Marathon runners

Editor's note: This article has been updated to correct the name of the Seward Providence Medical and Care Center. To outsiders of Seward’s annual Mount… Continue reading

Supplies and some Fourth of July accessories sit ready and waiting in a first aid tent at the base of Mount Marathon during the annual Mount Marathon Race on Tuesday, July 4, 2017 in Seward, Alaska. For the last four years, there has been a more official effort to provide first aid to runners on the mountain and at its base. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion)

Snow River dam project scrapped

Four weeks after federal regulators gave Chugach Electric Association a three-year permit to investigate the feasibility of putting a hydroelectric dam on the eastern Kenai… Continue reading